A Bar chart showing optical densities of bacterial cultures in the presence of differnet lanthanides. Promethium is included and fits well within its expected spot in the lanthanide series. In the right upper corner a comic of a cultivation flask with bacteria is shown.
Thats rad! Philippes first first author preprint is out: Lanthanide-dependent Methanotroph Thrives on Radioactive #Promethium #fblockrocks! doi.org/10.26434/che... We show that both the Ln-dependent enzyme MDH as well as strain SolV can use the beta-emitter Pm-147 in its metabolism. #chemsky 🧪