Protein Family Models

MerT is an mercuric transport integral membrane protein and is responsible for transport of the Hg2+ iron from periplasmic MerP (also part of the transport system) to mercuric reductase (MerE). [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]. 9159519. Intercontinental spread of promiscuous mercury-resistance transposons in environmental bacteria. Yurieva O, Kholodii G, Minakhin L, Gorlenko Z, Kalyaeva E, Mindlin S, Nikiforov V;. Mol Microbiol 1997;24:321-329. [3]. 9274008. Tn5041: a chimeric mercury resistance transposon closely related to the toluene degradative transposon Tn4651. Kholodii GYa, Yurieva OV, Gorlenko ZhM, Mindlin SZ, Bass IA, Lomovskaya OL, Kopteva AV, Nikiforov VG;. Microbiology 1997;143:2549-2556. (from Pfam)

Date:

2024-10-16

mercuric ion transporter MerT is involved in mercury resistance and probably transfers a mercuric ion from the periplasmic Hg(2+)-binding protein MerP to the cytoplasmic mercuric reductase MerA

Date:

2021-02-04

Gene:

merT

Date:

2020-10-26