Table 12.2 Reported organisms and the presence of arsenic metabolism genes
Genus and species
Arsenic/arsenate metabolizing
genes
References
Chrysiogenes arsenatis
Arsenate respiratory reductase
(arr)
Krafft and Macy (1998)
Bacillus selenitireducens
Arsenate respiratory reductase
(arr)
Afkar et al. (2003)
Shewanella sp. Strain ANA-3
Arsenate respiratory reductase
(arr)
Saltikov et al. (2005)
Corynebacterium glutamicum
arsB3 and arsC4 being constitutive and the expression of
arsR1, arsB1, arsC1, arsC1
0 ,
arsR2, arsB2, and arsC2 being
inducible by arsenite
Ordóñez et al. (2005)
Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
Arsenic transcriptional repressor (arsR), arsenite permease
(arsB), and arsenate reductase
(arsC)
Cai et al. (1998), Cai and
DuBow (1996), Ellis et al.
(2006) and Rosen et al.
(1992)
Enterobacteria
arsR, arsB, and arsC
Diorio et al. (1995)
Staphylococcus plasmids pI258
and pSX267
arsR, arsB, and arsC
Gotz et al. (1983) and
Silver et al. (1993)
Bacillus sp. and
Aneurinibacillus aneurinilyticus
Oxidizing As (III) due to an As
(III)-resistant efflux membrane
protein
Dey et al. (2016)
Flavobacterium sp.,
Achromobacter sp., and
Uncultured clones.
aioA gene
Karn et al. (2017)
Geobacillus kaustophilus A1
arsC1, arsC2, and arsC3
Cuebas et al. (2011)
Aeromonas, Exiguobacterium,
Acinetobacter, Bacillus and
Pseudomonas
arsB
Anderson and Cook (2004)
Genera like Acidithiobacillus,
Bacillus, Deinococcus,
Desulfitobacterium, and
Pseudomonas
arsB
Oremland et al. (2004) and
Suresh et al. (2004)
Enterobacter sp. (MNZ1),
Klebsiellapneumoniae1
(MNZ4), and Klebsiella pneumonia 2 (MNZ6)
arsC
Abbas et al. (2014)
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