Diversity of mercury resistance determinants among Bacillus strains isolated from sediment of Minamata Bay

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-82

  Narita, Masaru ^a   Chiba, Kazuyuki ^a   Nishizawa, Hiroshi ^a   Ishii, Hidenori ^a   Huang, Chieh Chen ^b   Kawabata, Zen'ichiro ^c   Silver, Simon ^d   Endo, Ginro ^a  

^a TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Genetic diversity; Mer genes; Mercury resistance; Minamata Bay

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; JAPAN; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM;

EID: 0038546474     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00325-2     Document Type: Article

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