Expression and regulation of the arsenic resistance operon of Acidiphilium multivorum AIU 301 plasmid pKW301 in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 411-418

  Suzuki, Katsuhisa ^a   Wakao, Norio ^b   Kimura, Tetsuya ^a   Sakka, Kazuo ^a   Ohmiya, Kunio ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; GENE PRODUCT; RNA POLYMERASE;

ACIDIPHILIUM MULTIVORUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION;

ACIDIPHILIUM MULTIVORUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031913712     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.411-418.1998     Document Type: Article

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