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BIOMETHYLATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT OF METALS
Citation:
Krishnamurthy*, S. BIOMETHYLATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT OF METALS. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 69(5):347-350, (1992).
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Toxic heavy metals are ubiquitous in the environment. They are found as metal or oxide dust in air, metal ions attached to humic substances in surface and ground water, and as metal ions bound to soils and sediments. The transformations, mobilization, transport, and bioaccumulation of these toxic metals are of fundamental environmental importance. There is a balance between the use of metals for important catalytic process in cells of higher organisms and the bioaccumulation of metals to a toxic level. Biological methylation of metals is a mechanism that plays an important role in the mobilization and transport of the metals. This review covers the literature to early 1991.
