Increased heavy metal sensitivity of Escherichia coli producing the expression product of priA gene derived from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-146

  Ishizaki, Takayuki ^a   Kanno, Tetsuya ^b   Kajiwara, Susumu ^a   Shishido, Kazuo ^a  

^a Fac Biosci Biotech   (Japan)

^b BANYU PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmentally regulated gene; Escherichia coli; Heavy metal sensitivity; Lentinus edodes; Zinc binding motif

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; NICKEL; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LENTINULA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; ZINC;

EID: 0033004152     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00591-6     Document Type: Article

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