Arsenite oxidase aox genes from a metal-resistant β-proteobacterium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-141

  Muller, Daniel ^a   Lièvremont, Didier ^a   Simeonova, Diliana Dancheva ^a,b   Hubert, Jean Claude ^a   Lett, Marie Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARSENIC; ARSENITE OXIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; METALS, HEAVY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS; UNCULTURED BETA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0037215520     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.1.135-141.2003     Document Type: Article

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