1Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana, Mich., Mexico.
Microbes resist toxic arsenic compounds using genetic determinants, often on plasmids. These determinants encode pumps that remove arsenite (AsIII) or convert arsenate (AsV) to less toxic forms, aiding microbial survival.
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