Class II broad-spectrum mercury resistance transposons in Gram-positive bacteria from natural environments

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 503-514

  Bogdanova, Elena ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^a   Bass, Irina ^a   Volodin, Alexander ^a   Hobman, Jon L ^b   Nikiforov, Vadim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class II broad spectrum mercury resistance transposons; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS FIRMUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXIGUOBACTERIUM; EXIGUOBACTERIUM SP.; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034983233     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(01)01224-4     Document Type: Article

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