BacMet Database search

Result: Your query found 1 resistance gene(s) from the BacMet Experimentally Confirmed database

Gene_name	Experimentally Verified Resistance Gene Information	Predicted Resistance Gene Information
merT	BacMet ID: BAC0233 Code for: Membrane Transporter Family: MerT family Sequence: FASTA Cross-database information: Link Organism: Alcaligenes sp. Location: Plasmid IncHI2, pMER610 (Alcaligenes spp.) Compound: Mercury (Hg) Description: Mercuric transport protein MerT; determines hyperaccumulation of Hg++ but not the CH3Hg+; Involved in mercuric transport. Passes a mercury ion from the periplasmic merP protein to the mercuric reductase (merA). Length (amino acid): 116 Reference: Hamlett et al. 1992; Pubmed- 1328156, Kiyono et al. 2000; Pubmed- 10726879	Similar resistance genes in 'BacMet Predicted database'

BacMet database and website is designed and maintained by Chandan Pal