Genes for all metals - A bacterial view of the Periodic Table: The 1996 Thom Award Lecture

Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Silver, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bacterial plasmids; Cadmium; Mercury; Toxic metal resistances

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; MERCURY;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOOD PROCESSING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON TRANSPORT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BACTERIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; METALS, HEAVY; MYCOLOGY; R FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031907875     PISSN: 13675435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jim.2900483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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