Bacterial resistances to toxic metal ions - A review

Gene

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-19

  Silver, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiporter; Arsenic; Bacterial plasmids; Cadmium; Efflux; Menkes syndrome; Mercury

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANTIMONY; ANTIPORTER; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CADMIUM; CATION; CHROMIC ACID; COBALT; COPPER ION; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; SILVER; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; THALLIUM; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; ZINC;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CATION TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; COPPER METABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EUKARYOTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ION TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MENKES SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOIL MICROFLORA; WILSON DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030574276     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00323-X     Document Type: Article

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