Protein Family Models

The prokaryotic MerE (or URF-1) protein is part of the mercury resistance operon. The protein is thought not to have any direct role in conferring mercury resistance to the organism but may be a mercury resistance transposon [1,2]. [1]. 9479042. Two aberrant mercury resistance transposons in the Pseudomonas stutzeri plasmid pPB. Reniero D, Mozzon E, Galli E, Barbieri P;. Gene 1998;208:37-42. [2]. 11763242. Mercury resistance transposons of gram-negative environmental bacteria and their classification. Mindlin S, Kholodii G, Gorlenko Z, Minakhina S, Minakhin L, Kalyaeva E, Kopteva A, Petrova M, Yurieva O, Nikiforov V;. Res Microbiol 2001;152:811-822. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-10-16

PRK13747 family protein

Date:

2017-03-02

Gene:

merE

Date:

2020-10-26