Resistance to cadmium and zinc in Acidiphilium symbioticum KM2 is plasmid mediated

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 180-186

  Mahapatra, Nitish R ^a,b   Ghosh, Sajalendu ^a   Deb, Chirajyoti ^a   Banerjee, Pataki C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CADMIUM; COPPER; DNA FRAGMENT; METAL; NICKEL; ZINC; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDIPHILIUM SYMBIOTICUM; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; HETEROTROPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ACETOBACTERACEAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MINING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ACIDIPHILIUM SYMBIOTICUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZINC;

EID: 0036715679     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0113-6     Document Type: Article

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