Genome Sequence of Mercury-Methylating Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132

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Brown, Steven D., Gilmour, Cynthia C., Kucken, Amy M., Wall, Judy D., Elias, Dwayne A., Podar, Mircea, Chertkov, Olga, Held, Brittany, Bruce, David C., Detter, John C., Tapia, Roxanne, Han, Cliff S., Goodwin, Lynne A., Cheng, Jan-Fang, Pitluck, Samuel, Woyke, Tanja, Mikhailova, Natalia, Ivanova, Natalia N., Han, James, Lucas, Susan, Lapidus, Alla L., Land, Miriam L., Hauser, Loren J., and Palumbo, Anthony V. 2011. "Genome Sequence of Mercury-Methylating Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132." Journal of Bacteriology, 193, (8) 2078–2079. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00170-11.

Desulfovibrio desulfuricans strain ND132 is an anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacterium (SRB) capable of producing methylmercury (MeHg), a potent human neurotoxin. The mechanism of methylation by this and other organisms is unknown. We present the 3.8 Mb genome sequence to provide further insight into microbial mercury methylation.