Dissemination of TnMERI1-like mercury resistance transposons among Bacillus isolated from worldwide environmental samples

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-55

  Narita, Masaru ^a   Matsui, Kazuaki ^a   Huang, Chieh Chen ^b   Kawabata, Zen'Ichiro ^c   Endo, Ginro ^a  

^a TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Class II transposon; Mer operon; Mercury resistance; Worldwide distribution

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; VOLATILE AGENT;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1642344946     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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