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<p>Bacteria encounter metals as both essential micronutrients and persistent toxins. These conflicting requirements are managed by genetic components, often organized as operons or coordinated regulons, which link sensing to trafficking, buffering, export, detoxification, biotransformation, and, in certain instances, storage. This review develops a gene-organization-focused perspective on bacterial metal responses, emphasizing metallostasis, resistance, envelope topology, evolutionary mobility, and bioremediation relevance, highlighting two key principles. Firstly, metallostasis maintains homeostatic set-points for essential metals by regulating uptake, allocation, and overflow. Secondly, the cell envelope’s topology serves as a primary constraint. In contrast, resistance mechanisms for toxic metals and metalloids strive to achieve near-zero intracellular concentrations by facilitating rapid clearance. Gram-negative bacteria often employ compartmental “handoff” strategies that connect cytosolic relief to high-capacity envelope clearance. Conversely, Gram-positive envelopes tend to favor responses that involve inner-membrane export, along with cytosolic or cell wall buffering. This review structures the components into a modular toolkit, encompassing sensors and regulators, uptake control, exporters and clearance pumps, periplasmic partners, detoxification enzymes, and the dichotomy between sequestration and storage. It further seeks to link recurring architectures to evolutionary mobility and co-selection with antibiotic resistance. Ultimately, these insights are applied to bioremediation.</p>

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Operonic architecture of bacterial metal response: envelope constraints, evolutionary mobility, and bioremediation design rules

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    2026年5月29日

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  • Ayon Pal,
  • Madhumita G. Chaki

摘要

Bacteria encounter metals as both essential micronutrients and persistent toxins. These conflicting requirements are managed by genetic components, often organized as operons or coordinated regulons, which link sensing to trafficking, buffering, export, detoxification, biotransformation, and, in certain instances, storage. This review develops a gene-organization-focused perspective on bacterial metal responses, emphasizing metallostasis, resistance, envelope topology, evolutionary mobility, and bioremediation relevance, highlighting two key principles. Firstly, metallostasis maintains homeostatic set-points for essential metals by regulating uptake, allocation, and overflow. Secondly, the cell envelope’s topology serves as a primary constraint. In contrast, resistance mechanisms for toxic metals and metalloids strive to achieve near-zero intracellular concentrations by facilitating rapid clearance. Gram-negative bacteria often employ compartmental “handoff” strategies that connect cytosolic relief to high-capacity envelope clearance. Conversely, Gram-positive envelopes tend to favor responses that involve inner-membrane export, along with cytosolic or cell wall buffering. This review structures the components into a modular toolkit, encompassing sensors and regulators, uptake control, exporters and clearance pumps, periplasmic partners, detoxification enzymes, and the dichotomy between sequestration and storage. It further seeks to link recurring architectures to evolutionary mobility and co-selection with antibiotic resistance. Ultimately, these insights are applied to bioremediation.