• DOI:10.1126/science.1197258
Corpus ID: 51834091

A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus

@article{WolfeSimon2011ABT,
  title={A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus},
  author={F. Wolfe-Simon and J. S. Blum and T. Kulp and G. Gordon and S. Hoeft and J. Pett-Ridge and J. Stolz and S. Webb and P. Weber and P. Davies and A. Anbar and R. Oremland},
  journal={Science},
  year={2011},
  volume={332},
  pages={1163 - 1166}
}

• F. Wolfe-Simon, J. S. Blum, +9 authors R. Oremland
• Published 2011
• Chemistry, Medicine
• Science

Evidence is offered for arsenate replacing phosphate as a molecular building block in a Mono Lake, California, bacterium. Life is mostly composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Although these six elements make up nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids and thus the bulk of living matter, it is theoretically possible that some other elements in the periodic table could serve the same functions. Here, we describe a bacterium, strain GFAJ-1 of the… Expand

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