Two-component regulatory system involved in transcriptional control of heavy-metal homoeostasis in Alcaligenes eutrophus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 493-503

  Van Der Lelie, Daniel ^a   Schwuchow, Tanja ^b   Schwidetzky, Uta ^c   Wuertz, Stefan ^a,d   Baeyens, Wilfried ^a   Mergeay, Max ^a   Nies, Dietrich H ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b Institut für Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^c Inst F Pflanzenphysiologie M   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS AND REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031035708     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.d01-1866.x     Document Type: Article

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