Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals

Preface

Contents

Part I Molecular Physiology ofMetal- Microbe Interactions According to Mechanisms

Understanding How Cells Allocate Metals

Metalloregulators: Arbiters of Metal Sufficiency

Transcriptomic Responses of Bacterial Cells to Sublethal Metal Ion Stress

Bacterial Transition Metal Homeostasis

Biosensing of Heavy Metals

A Glossary of Microanalytical Tools to Assess the Metallome

Part II Molecular Physiology of Metal- Microbe Interactions According to Groups

Acquisition of Iron by Bacteria

New Transport Deals for Old Iron

Manganese: Uptake, Biological Function, and Role in Virulence

How Bacteria Handle Copper

Microbial Physiology of Nickel and Cobalt

Zinc, Cadmium, and Lead Resistance and Homeostasis

Microbiology of the Toxic Noble Metal Silver

Mercury Microbiology: Resistance Systems, Environmental Aspects, Methylation, and Human Health

Arsenic Metabolism in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbes

Reduction and Efflux of Chromate by Bacteria

Molybdate and Tungstate: Uptake, Homeostasis, Cofactors, and Enzymes

Subject Index