Mercury Methylmercury Discovery

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Methylmercury: How microbes create the most toxic form of mercury

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Researchers have identified an unexpected major player in methylmercury poisoning.

S-adenosyl-L-methionine ( SAM ) is the unexpected methyl donor for the methylation of mercury by the membrane-associated HGCAB complex.

The protein system that converts mercury to methylmerCury, called HgcAB , is present only in very small amounts in microbes, making it difficult to gather and purify enough to study.

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