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| Title |
Mining Genomes of Marine Cyanobacteria for Elements of Zinc Homeostasis
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00142 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
James P. Barnett, Andrew Millard, Amira Z. Ksibe, David J. Scanlan, Ralf Schmid, Claudia Andrea Blindauer |
| Abstract |
Zinc is a recognized essential element for the majority of organisms, and is indispensable for the correct function of hundreds of enzymes and thousands of regulatory proteins. In aquatic photoautotrophs including cyanobacteria, zinc is thought to be required for carbonic anhydrase and alkaline phosphatase, although there is evidence that at least some carbonic anhydrases can be cambialistic, i.e., are able to acquire in vivo and function with different metal cofactors such as Co(2+) and Cd(2+). Given the global importance of marine phytoplankton, zinc availability in the oceans is likely to have an impact on both carbon and phosphorus cycles. Zinc concentrations in seawater vary over several orders of magnitude, and in the open oceans adopt a nutrient-like profile. Most studies on zinc handling by cyanobacteria have focused on freshwater strains and zinc toxicity; much less information is available on marine strains and zinc limitation. Several systems for zinc homeostasis have been characterized in the freshwater species Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, but little is known about zinc requirements or zinc handling by marine species. Comparative metallo-genomics has begun to explore not only the putative zinc proteome, but also specific protein families predicted to have an involvement in zinc homeostasis, including sensors for excess and limitation (SmtB and its homologs as well as Zur), uptake systems (ZnuABC), putative intracellular zinc chaperones (COG0523) and metallothioneins (BmtA), and efflux pumps (ZiaA and its homologs). |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 28% |
| Researcher | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 35% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 19% |
| Chemistry | 8 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 10% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2023.
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#54
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