Polyphosphate produced in recombinant Escherichia coli confers mercury resistance

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 159-164

  Pan Hou, Hidemitsu ^a   Kiyono, Masako ^a   Omura, Hisaki ^a   Omura, Tomoko ^a   Endo, Ginro ^b  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fusion plasmid pMKB18; mer genes; Mercury resistance; Polyphosphate; ppk

Indexed keywords

CHELATE; MERCURY; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; POLYPHOSPHATE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA VECTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNTHESIS;

DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MERCURY; OPERON; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHATE GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; POLYPHOSPHATES; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; PSEUDOMONAS; UNIDENTIFIED CLONING VECTOR;

EID: 0037022415     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00583-3     Document Type: Article

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