Metalloid resistance mechanisms in prokaryotes

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-23

  Xu, Chun ^a   Zhou, Tongqing ^a   Kuroda, Masayuki ^b   Rosen, Barry P ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Metalloregulation; Resistance; Transport

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CYSTEINE; METAL; PROTEIN; THIOL;

ALLOSTERISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHROMOSOME; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031891809     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021904     Document Type: Review

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