Mercury resistance in Bacillus cereus RC607: Transcriptional organization and two new open reading frames

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 7080-7086

  Gupta, Amit ^a   Phung, Le T ^a   Chakravarty, Leena ^a   Silver, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032743916     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.22.7080-7086.1999     Document Type: Article

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