Bioaccumulation of Copper Ions by Escherichia coli Expressing Vanabin Genes from the Vanadium-Rich Ascidian Ascidia sydneiensis samea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6442-6446

  Ueki, Tatsuya ^a   Sakamoto, Yasuhisa ^a   Yamaguchi, Nobuo ^a   Michibata, Hitoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DATA REDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; POSITIVE IONS;

GENE ENCODING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BINDING PROTEIN; COPPER ION; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANABIN 1; VANABIN 2; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIA SYDNEIENSIS SAMEA; ASCIDIACEA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOACCUMULATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VANABIN GENE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COPPER; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; UROCHORDATA; VANADIUM;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIA SYDNEIENSIS SAMEA; ASCIDIACEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SAMEA;

EID: 0242657699     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6442-6446.2003     Document Type: Article

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