Abstract

Shashank Chauhan, Rupesh Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Dinesh Kumar and Maya Datt Joshi*

ABSTRACT

Industrialization has led to introduction of heavy metals in the environment. Heavy metals are known to persist in the environment and become a risk for living beings. Micro-organisms present in industrial effluents are capable to cope up with the harmful effects of these metals. Microorganism adopt different mechanism and one such strategy is biosorption which is binding of metal ions with metal binding proteins present on the cell wall of microorganism. The present study is intended to analyze soil sample contaminated with heavy metals like Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Cadmium (Cd), and Mercury (Hg) in Bacillus spp.and E. coli against different concentrations. Result showed that Bacillus spp. and E. coli has minimize the concentration of heavy metals in soil sample.