ESWAYAH, Abdurrahman, SMITH, Thomas and GARDINER, Philip (2016). Microbial transformations of selenium species of relevance to bioremediation. Applied and environmental microbiology, 82 (16), 4848-4859.
Abstract
Selenium species, particularly the oxyanions selenite (SeO3 (2-)) and selenate (SeO4 (2-)), are significant pollutants in the environment that leach from rocks and are released by anthropogenic activities. Selenium is also an essential micronutrient for organisms across the tree of life, including microorganisms and human beings, particularly because of its presence in the 21st genetically encoded amino acid, selenocysteine. Environmental microorganisms are known to be capable of a range of transformations of selenium species, including reduction, methylation, oxidation, and demethylation.
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