Engineering a mouse metallothionein on the cell surface of Ralstonia eutropha CH34 for immobilization of heavy metals in soil

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 661-665

  Valls, Marc ^a,b   Atrian, Sílvia ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^b   Fernández, Luis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alcaligenes; Bioremediation; Heavy metals; Metallothionein; Ralstonia; Surface display

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM POISONING; CELL DIVISION; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; MICE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOBACCO;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RALSTONIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0034045457     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76516     Document Type: Article

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