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Purpose
- To create a novel biosensor that senses inorganic mercury and generates a color as an indicator of the presence of mercury pollution in the environment.
Rationale
Environmental mercury is usually present as dissolved mercury in water, or as Hg2+ ions.
References
- An initial characterization of the mercury resistance (mer) system of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27.
- Wang Y, Freedman Z, Lu-Irving P, Kaletsky R, Barkay T.
- FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2009 Jan;67(1):118-29.
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
