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Arsenic-Transforming Bacteria: A Potential Weapon for Arsenic-Contaminated Soil

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Arsenic (As) is one of the ten major poisonous metals occurring on earth crust or environment originated from rocks, minerals, and anthropogenic sources. This toxic metalloid occurs as insoluble trivalent arsenite (As III) and pentavalent arsenate (As V) which are fatal to human health as recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). The insoluble form of arsenic occurs in trivalent arsenite (As III) and pentavalent arsenate (As V) forms. As V is a structural equivalent of phosphate and breaks oxidative phosphorylation, which is a vital reaction of energy uptake in many beings including humans. Processing a phosphate structure analogue which could enter any bacterial cell through phosphate transport system and phosphorylates replacing phosphate thereby inhibits the metabolism. Arsenic is uptaken by aquaglyceroporins at neutral pH in bacteria, yeasts, and mammals by binding to sulfhydryl groups of cysteine residues in proteins leading to an increased cytotoxicity. The soil microbes play a substantial role in its biogeochemical processing, by directly taking part in As speciation or doing so circuitously through redox interactions with other metals and nutrients, e.g., iron and nitrogen. The development of descriptive and comparative approaches with the cumulative number of genomes available was conceived not only to identify several genetic elements of the arsenic metabolism but also to explicate their phylogenetic circulation and its regulation. Numerous mechanisms are used by these microbes such as avoiding/reducing the toxicity due to arsenic by a phosphate uptake, by lipid peroxidation in the cell membranes, and by modifying the ars gene which controls the arsenic detoxification pathway. In this context, we will discuss in detail on the importance of arsenic-transforming bacteria and its potential application in bioremediation of contaminated soil.

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Abbreviations

As:

Arsenic

As III:

Arsenite

As V:

Arsenate

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Narayanasamy, P., Subramanian, R.K. (2021). Arsenic-Transforming Bacteria: A Potential Weapon for Arsenic-Contaminated Soil. In: Aravind, J., Kamaraj, M., Prashanthi Devi, M., Rajakumar, S. (eds) Strategies and Tools for Pollutant Mitigation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63575-6_12

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