From: Mercury removal by engineered Escherichia coli cells expressing different rice metallothionein isoforms
Metal/OsMTs
Initial velocity (nmol/min)
Apo/OsMT1
Cd2+/OsMT1
Hg2+/OsMT1
1780
282
233
Apo/OsMT2
Cd2+/OsMT2
Hg2+/OsMT2
1870
Apo/OsMT3
Cd2+/OsMT3
Hg2+/OsMT3
1760
545
Apo/OsMT4
Cd2+/OsMT4
Hg2+/OsMT4
1890
1590
776