Mercury is a highly toxic trace metal that readily biomagnifies in food webs where it is inaccessible to current bioremediation methods. Here the authors express organomercurial lyase and mercuric reductase from Escherichia coli in Drosophila melanogaster and Danio rerio to demethylate methylmercury and remove it from their biomass as volatile elemental mercury.
- Kate Tepper
- Josh King
- Maciej Maselko
