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Crystal structure of MerB, the Organomercurial Lyase involved in a bacterial mercury resistance systemCrystal structure of MerB, the Organomercurial Lyase involved in a bacterial mercury resistance system
Structural highlights
FunctionMERB_ECOLX Cleaves the carbon-mercury bond of organomercurials such as phenylmercuric acetate. One product is Hg(2+), which is subsequently detoxified by the mercuric reductase (By similarity). Evolutionary ConservationCheck, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. |
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