An origin for arsenobetaine involving bacterial formation of an arsenic-carbon bond

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-99

  Ritchie, Alisdair W ^a   Edmonds, John S ^b   Goessler, Walter ^c   Jenkins, Richard O ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenobetaine; Dimethylarsinate; Dimethylarsinoylacetate; Pseudomonas; S adenosylmethionine

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ARSENOBETAINE; CACODYLIC ACID; CARBON; CELL EXTRACT; DIMETHYLARSINOETHANOL; DIMETHYLARSINOYLACETATE; ENZYME; METHYL GROUP; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; METHYLATION; MUSSEL; MYLITUS EDULIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS; REDUCTION;

ACETIC ACIDS; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; CARBON; METHYLATION; PSEUDOMONAS; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYTILIDAE; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 2442651715     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.016     Document Type: Article

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