Emergence of Cu++-tolerant mutants defective in gellan synthesis in Cu++-stressed cultures of sphingomonas paucimobilis

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 251-261

  Richau, J A ^a   Choquenet, D ^a   Fialho, A M ^a   Sa Correia I ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Copper; Gellan; Phenotype; Sphonomonas paucimobilis; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; GELLAN; KANAMYCIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS;

EID: 0030935689     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(97)85245-X     Document Type: Article

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