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In the present review we provide an overview of how cells deal in the presence of the poison cyanide that irreversible binds to metals causing, among other things, iron-deprivation conditions outside the cell and metalloenzymes inhibition inside the cell. In this sense, several systems must be present in a cyanotrophic organism, including a siderophore-based acquisition mechanism, a cyanide-insensitive respiratory system and a cyanide degradation\/assimilation pathway. The alkaliphilic autochthonous bacterium Pseudomonas pseudocaligenes CECT5344 presents all these requirements with the production of siderophores, a cyanide-insensitive bd-related cytochrome [Cio (cyanide-insensitive oxidase)] and a cyanide assimilation pathway that generates ammonium, which is further incorporated into organic nitrogen.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1042\/bst0390269","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,26]],"date-time":"2011-01-26T07:25:37Z","timestamp":1296026737000},"page":"269-274","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1042\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Bacterial cyanide degradation is under review:\n                    <i>Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes<\/i>\n                    CECT5344, a case of an alkaliphilic cyanotroph"],"prefix":"10.1042","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Victor\u00a0M.","family":"Luque-Almagro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, 1a Planta, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rafael","family":"Blasco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular y Gen\u00e9tica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Extremadura, C\u00e1ceres, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Manuel","family":"Mart\u00ednez-Luque","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, 1a Planta, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Conrado","family":"Moreno-Vivi\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, 1a Planta, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francisco","family":"Castillo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, 1a Planta, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.\u00a0Dolores","family":"Rold\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Bioqu\u00edmica y Biolog\u00eda Molecular, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Severo Ochoa, 1a Planta, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"288","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021111900011642200_B1","volume-title":"Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry","author":"Connell","year":"1997"},{"key":"2021111900011642200_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"445","DOI":"10.1023\/A:1022608213814","article-title":"Microbial destruction of cyanide wastes in gold mining: process review","volume":"25","author":"Akcil","year":"2003","journal-title":"Biotechnol. 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