Municipal and industrial wastewater often contains a cocktail of a multitude of heavy metals and nutrients. Bacteria present in such wastewater may develop multiple heavy metals resistance to cope with such heavy metal stress as an adaptive strategy. These bacteria with multimetal resistance property have the potential for remediating the wastewater or soil contaminated with multiple heavy metals. I expect some enlightening and enriching inputs from RG friends and researchers.
Good question.
What you mentioned is exactly what happen in bio remediation
In some cases if bacteria didn't developed this resistance will die and the system will fail.
So you can measure the efficiency of your system by the capacity of bacteria or microorganisms to uptake metals from solution.
Regards
The case of bacterial multimetal resistance is a bit different from resistance to single metal but is more worthy as a tool for bioremediation. I am particularly interested to tolerance and resistance strategy and the cellular, biochemical and molecular mechanism involved there. How does escape mechanism and tolerance in course of time evolves as an adaptive strategy and means of detoxification and/or removal?
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