Helicobacter pylori cadA encodes an essential Cd(II)-Zn(II)-Co(II) resistance factor influencing urease activity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 524-536

  Herrmann, Lutz ^a   Schwan, Dorothee ^a   Garner, Rachel ^c   Mobley, Harry L T ^c   Haas, Rainer ^b   Schäfer, Klaus P ^a   Melchers, Klaus ^a  

^a ALTANA PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CADMIUM; COBALT; UREASE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADMIUM; COBALT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METALLOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; UREASE; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0032791578     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01496.x     Document Type: Article

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