Arsenic Metabolism, Toxicity and Accumulation in the White Button Mushroom <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>

Mushrooms have unique properties in arsenic metabolism. In many commercial and wild-grown mushrooms, arsenobetaine (AsB), a non-toxic arsenical, was found as the dominant arsenic species. The AsB biosynthesis remains unknown, so we designed experiments to study conditions for AsB formation in the wh...

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Main Authors: Owen Dong, Michael Powers, Zijuan Liu, Masafumi Yoshinaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
Series:Toxics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/10/10/554