Role of components of cell walls in metal uptake by Aspergillus niger

Resource and Environmental Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-69

  Feofilova, E P ^a   Mar'in, A P ^b   Tereshina, V M ^a   Nemsev, D M ^c   Kozlov, V R ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c CITROBEL Joint Stock Company   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

A. niger; Cell wall; Chitin; Chitosan; Glucan; Metal uptake

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; HEAVY METAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 0034084639     PISSN: 13582283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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