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. 1990 Jan;56(1):298–300. doi: 10.1128/aem.56.1.298-300.1990

Carbon Flow in Mercury Biomethylation by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans†

Mitchell Berman 1, Theodore Chase Jr 1, Richard Bartha 1,*
PMCID: PMC183328  PMID: 16348104

Abstract

Radiocarbon incorporation from pyruvate and serine into monomethylmercury by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans was consistent with the proposal that the methyl group originates from C-3 of serine. Immunodiagnostic assays measured 4 to 35 μg of tetrahydrofolate and 58 to 161 ng of cobalamin or a closely related cobalt porphyrin per g of cell protein in D. desulfuricans. The light-reversible inhibition of mercury methylation by propyl iodide in D. desulfuricans indicates methyl transfer by a cobalt porphyrin.

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