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Mar Biotechnol 8:94–101
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metabolites and metabolic pathway of livings. Appl Environ Microbiol 65(8):1205–1247
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white rot fungi Polyporus sp. S133. J Microbiol Biotechnol 21:995–1000
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bioremediation. J Bioremed Biodegr 4:e133. https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-6199.1000e133
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(2005) Expansion of the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases to 160 genomes.
Nucleic Acids Res 33:6083–6089
Kefala MI, Zouboulis AIE, Matis KA (1999) Biosorption of cadmium ions by Actinomycetes and
separation by flotation. Environ Pollut 104(2):283–293
Kermani AJN, Ghasemi MF, Khosravan A, Farahmand A, Shakibaie MR (2010) Cadmium
bioremediation by metal-resistant mutated bacteria isolated from active sludge of industrial
effluent. Iran J Environ Health Sci Eng 7(4):279–286
Keskinkan O, Goksu MZL, Yuceer A, Basibuyuk M, Forster CF (2003) Heavy metal adsorption
characteristics of a submerged aquatic plant (Myriophyllum spicatum). Process Biochem 39
(2):179–183
Khan AG (2005) Role of soil microbes in the rhizospheres of plants growing on trace metal
contaminated soils in phyto-remediation. J Trace Elem Med Biol 18(4):355–364
Khan F, Sajid M, Cameotra SS (2013) In silico approach for the bioremediation of toxic pollutants.
J Pet Environ Biotechnol 4:2
Khan Z, Nisar MA, Hussain SZ, Arshad MN, Rehman A (2015) Cadmium resistance mechanism in
Escherichia coli P4 and its potential use to bioremediate environmental cadmium. Appl
Microbiol Biotechnol 99(24):10745–10757
Kim SK, Lee BS, Wilson DB, Kim EK (2005) Selective cadmium accumulation using recombinant
E. coli. J Biosci Bioeng 99(2):109–114
Kim SU, Cheong YH, Seo DC, Hu JS, Heo JS, Cho JS (2007) Characterisation of heavy metal
tolerance and biosorption capacity of bacterium strain CPB4 (Bacillus spp.). Water Sci Technol
55(1–2):105–111
Kiyono M, Pan-Hou H (1999) The merG gene product is involved in phenylmercury resistance in
Pseudomonas strain K-62. J Bacteriol 181:726–730
Kiyono M, Sone Y, Nakamura R, Pan-Hou H, Sakabe K (2009) The Mer E protein encoded by
transposon Tn21 is a broad mercury transporter in Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett 583:1127–1131
Kiyono M, Oka Y, Sone Y, Nakamura R, Sato MH, Sakabe K, Pan-Hou H (2013) Bacterial heavy
metal transporter MerC increases mercury accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochem Eng J
71:19–24
Klaassen CD, Liu SCJ (1999) Metallothionein: an intracellular protein to protect against cadmium
toxicity. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 39:267–294
Kobayashi I, Fujiwara S, Saegusa H, Inohe M, Metsumoto H, Tsuzuki M (2006) Relief of arsenate
toxicity by Cd-stimulated phytochelatin synthesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Mar Biotechnol 8:94–101
Koch N, Islam NF, Sonowal S, Prasad R, Sarma H (2021) Environmental antibiotics and resistance
genes as emerging contaminants: methods of detection and bioremediation. Curr Res Microbial
Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmicr.2021.100027
Kondo A, Ueda M (2004) Yeast cell-surface display-applications of molecular display. Appl
Microbiol Biotechnol 64:28–40
Kornberg A (1995) Inorganic polyphosphate: toward making a forgotten polymer unforgettable. J
Bacteriol 177:491–496
Kostal JRY, Wu CH, Mulchandani A, Chen W (2004) Enhanced arsenic accumulation in
engineered bacterial cells expressing ArsR. Appl Environ Microbiol 70:4582–4587
Kotrba P, Ruml T (2000) Bioremediation of heavy metal pollution exploiting constituents,
metabolites and metabolic pathway of livings. Appl Environ Microbiol 65(8):1205–1247
Kratchovil D, Volesky B (1998) Advances in the biosorption of heavy metals. Trends Biotechnol
16:291–300
Kristanti RA, Hadibarata T, Toyama T, Tanaka Y, Mori K (2011) Bioremediation of crude oil by
white rot fungi Polyporus sp. S133. J Microbiol Biotechnol 21:995–1000
Kulshreshtha S (2013) Genetically engineered microorganisms: a problem solving approach for
bioremediation. J Bioremed Biodegr 4:e133. https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-6199.1000e133
12 Remediation of Heavy Metals Through Genetically Engineered Microorganism
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