Halotolerant and metalotolerant bacteria strains with heavy metals biorestoration possibilities isolated from Uburu Salt Lake, Southeastern, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT: Environmental contaminations by heavy metals are currently an increasing public health concern globally. One key challenge of these toxic metals is the extremely difficulties involved in their detoxification from the environment and effluents because of their non-degradability. An efficient biologic agent with potentials of remediating these toxic metals may ease these ever-increasing problems. We reported toxic metals tolerance and bioremediation potentials of novel bacteria sp. Strains USL2S, USL4W and USL5W isolated from Uburu salt lake, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The phenotypic characteristics and the 16S rRNA gene analyses revealed that USL2S strain belongs to the genus Klebsiella, whereas USL4W and USL5W strains belong to the genus Pseudomonas. The bacteria isolates grew we

SUBMITTER: Orji OU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8321926 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature