Mercury adaptation among bacteria from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 220-226

  Vetriani, Costantino ^a   Chew, Yein S ^a,c   Miller, Susan M ^b   Yagi, Jane ^a,d   Coombs, Jonna ^a   Lutz, Richard A ^a   Barkay, Tamar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (Malaysia)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MERCURY (METAL); SALINE WATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; OXYGENATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; THERMOPHILES;

BACTERIA;

MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; METAL; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ADAPTATION; ALCANIVORAX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEEP SEA; DETOXIFICATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MERA GENE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; HALOMONADACEAE; HEAT; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VOLATILIZATION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

ALCANIVORAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; TRANSPOSON TN501;

EID: 12244251437     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.220-226.2005     Document Type: Article

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