Evidence for the involvement of vacuolar activity in metal(loid) tolerance: Vacuolar-lacking and -defective mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae display higher sensitivity to chromate, tellurite and selenite

BioMetals

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Gharieb, Mohammed M ^a   Gadd, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a Menoufia University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Metal(loids); Toxicity; Vacuolar H+ ATPase; Vacuole

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID; CHROMIUM; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SELENITE; SELENIUM; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOSOL; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMATES; CHROMIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALS; MUTATION; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELENIUM; SODIUM SELENITE; TELLURIUM; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; VACUOLES;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031887852     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009221810760     Document Type: Article

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