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In the present work, we investigated the metabolism of this metalloid in the bacterium<jats:italic>Ochrobactrum tritici<\/jats:italic>SCII24. This heterotrophic organism contains two different<jats:italic>ars<\/jats:italic>operons and is able to oxidize arsenite to arsenate. The presence of arsenite oxidase genes in this organism was evaluated, and sequence analysis revealed structural genes for an As(III) oxidase (<jats:italic>aoxAB<\/jats:italic>), a<jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>-type cytochrome (<jats:italic>cytC<\/jats:italic>), and molybdopterin biosynthesis (<jats:italic>moeA<\/jats:italic>). Two other genes coding for a two-component signal transduction pair (<jats:italic>aoxRS<\/jats:italic>) were also identified upstream from the previous gene cluster. The involvement of<jats:italic>aox<\/jats:italic>genes in As(III) oxidation was confirmed by functionally expressing them into<jats:italic>O. tritici<\/jats:italic>5bvl1, a non-As(III) oxidizer. Experiments showed that the As(III) oxidation process in<jats:italic>O. tritici<\/jats:italic>requires not only the enzyme arsenite oxidase but also the cytochrome<jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>encoded in the operon. The fundamental role of this cytochrome<jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>, reduced in the presence of arsenite in strain SCII24 but not in an<jats:italic>O. tritici<\/jats:italic>\u0394<jats:italic>aoxB<\/jats:italic>mutant, is surprising, since to date this feature has not been found in other organisms. In this strain the presence of an<jats:italic>aox<\/jats:italic>system does not seem to confer an additional arsenite resistance capability; however, it might act as part of an As(III)-detoxifying strategy. 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