Publications

1. J. Messens and S. Silver (2006) Arsenate reduction: thiol cascade chemistry with convergent evolution. J. Mol. Biol. 362, 1-17.
2. Y. Sasaki, T. Hayakawa, C. Inoue, M. Miyazaki, S. Silver, and T. Kusano (2006) Generation of mercury-hyperaccumulating plants through transgenic expression of the bacterial mercury membrane transport protein MerC. Transgenic Research 15:615-625.   
3. S. Silver, L. T. Phung and G. Silver. 2006. Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds. J. Industr. Microbiol. Biotech. 33, 627-634.
4. S. Silver and L.T. Phung. 2005. A bacterial view of the Periodic Table: Genes and proteins for toxic inorganic ions. J. Indust. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 32, 587-605.
5. A. L. Koch and S. Silver. 2005. The First Cell. Advan. Microb. Physiol. 50, 227-259.
6. Y. Sasaki, T. Minakawa, A. Miyazaki. S. Silver, and T. Kusano. 2005. Functional dissection of a mercuric ion transporter, MerC, from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 69, 1394-1402.
7. S. Silver and L.T. Phung. 2005. Genes and enzymes involved in bacterial oxidation and reduction of inorganic arsenic. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71, 599-608.
8. M. Barreto, R. Quatrini, S. Bueno, C. Arriagada, J. Valdes, S. Silver, E. Jedlicki and D. S. Holmes. 2003. Aspects of the predicted physiology of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans deduced from analysis of its partial genome sequence. Hydrometallurgy 71, 97-105.
9. M. Filella, N. Belzile, Y.-W. Chen, C. Elleouet, P.M. May, D. Mavrocordatos, P. Nirel, A. Porquet, F. Quentel and S. Silver. 2003. Antimony in aquatic systems. J. Phys. IV France 107, 475-478.
10. M. Narita, K. Chiba, H. Nishizawa, H. Ishii, C.-C. Huang, Z. Kawabata, S. Silver and G. Endo. 2003. Diversity of mercury resistance determinants among Bacillus strains isolated from sediment of Minamata Bay. FEMS Microbiol. Letters 223, 73-82.
11. S. Silver. 2003. Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds. FEMS. Microbiol. Rev. 27, 341-354.
12. G. Endo, M. Narita, C.-C. Huang, and S. Silver. 2003. Microbial heavy metal resistance transposons and plasmids: potential use for environmental biotechnology. J. Environ. Biotech. 2, 71-82.
13. D.S. Holmes, M. Barreto, J. Valdez, C. Dominguez, C. Arriagada, S. Silver, S. Bueno and E. Jedlicki. 2001. Whole genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans: metabolic reconstruction, heavy metal resistance and other characteristics. In: "Biohydrometallurgy: Fundamentals, Technology and Sustainable Development, Part A" (V.S.T. Ciminelli and O. Garcia, Jr., Eds.), Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 237-251.
14. A. Gupta, L. T. Phung, D. E. Taylor and S. Silver. 2001. Silver resistance genes in plasmids of the IncH incompatibility group and on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Microbiology 147, 3393-3402.
15. K. Iohara, R. Iiyama, K. Nakamura, S. Silver, and K. Furukawa. 2001. The mer operon of a mercury-resistant Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis strain from Minamata Bay, Japan. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 56, 736-741.
16. C.-C. Huang, M. Narita, T. Yamagata, G. Endo and S. Silver. 2002. Two regulatory genes of the mercury resistance determinants of transposon TnMERI1 by luciferase-based examination.Gene 301, 13-20.
17. R. Mukhopadhyay, B.P. Rosen, L.T. Phung and S. Silver. 2002, Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 26, 311-325.
18. G. Endo, M. Narita, C.-C. Huang, and S.  Silver. 2002.  Microbial heavy metal resistance transposons and plasmids: potential use for environmental biotechnology.  J.  Environ. Biotech. 2, 71-82.
19. M. Narita, K. Chiba, H. Nishizawa, H. Ishii, C.-C. Huang, Z. Kawabata, S. Silver and G. Endo. 2003. Diversity of mercury resistance determinants among Bacillus strains isolated from sediment of Minamata Bay. FEMS Microbiol. Let. 223, 73-82.
20. Silver S. 2003. Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 27, 341-353.

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