Bacterial heavy metal resistance: New surprises

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 753-789

  Silver, Simon ^a   Phung, Le T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic; ATPases; cadmium; chromate; copper; mercury; plasmid resistances

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HEAVY METAL;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; CELL TRANSPORT; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MENKES SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WILSON DISEASE;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CADMIUM; COPPER; CYANOBACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0029792315     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.753     Document Type: Review

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