Relationship between the persistence of mer operon sequences in Escherichia coli and their resistance to mercury

Current Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 178-183

  Murtaza, Imtiyaz ^a   Dutt, Amit ^a,b   Ali, Arif ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYASE; MERB PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; MER GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDIA; LYASES; MERCURY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPERON; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0036514166     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0085-6     Document Type: Article

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