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- Title
Arsenic-resistant proteobacterium from the phyllosphere of arsenic-hyperaccumulating fern (Pteris vittata L.) reduces arsenate to arsenite.
- Authors
Rathinasabapathi, Bala; Raman, Suresh Babu; Kertulis, Gina; Ma, Lena
- Abstract
An arsenic-resistant bacterium, AsRB1, was isolated from the fronds of Pteris vittata grown in a site contaminated with copper chromium arsenate. The bacterium exhibited resistance to arsenate, arsenite, and antimony in the culture medium. AsRB1, like Pseudomonas putida, grew on MacConkey and xylose–lactose–desoxycholate agars and utilized citrate but, unlike P. putida, was positive for indole test and negative for oxidase test. A phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene showed that AsRB1 is a proteobacterium of the beta subclass, related to Pseudomonas saccharophila and Variovorax paradoxus. Following an exogenous supply of arsenate, most arsenic occurred as arsenite in the medium and the cell extracts, suggesting reduction and extrusion of arsenic as the mechanism for arsenic resistance in AsRB1.
- Subjects
PHYLOGENY; ARSENIC; PSEUDOMONAS saccharophila; ARSENATES; ANTIMONY; FUNGUS-bacterium relationships
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2006, Vol 52, Issue 7, p695
- ISSN
0008-4166
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/W06-017