Identification of a gene cluster, czr, involved in cadmium and zinc resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 417-425

  Hassan, Mah e Talat ^a,b   Van Der Lelie, Daniel ^b   Springael, Dirk ^b   Römling, Ute ^c   Ahmed, Nuzhat ^a   Mergeay, Max ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^b Environmental Technology   (Belgium)

^c Klinische Forschergruppe   (Germany)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chromosome; DNA sequence; Polluted water sample; Ralstonia eutropha like

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CADMIUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ZINC;

PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0032884944     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00349-2     Document Type: Article

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