Molecular Cloning and Genetic Analysis of Functional merB Gene from Indian Isolates of Escherichia coli

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 297-302

  Murtaza, Imtiyaz ^a   Dutt, Amit ^b   Mushtaq, Dhuha ^c   Ali, Arif ^b  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZENE; MERCURY; PHENYL MERCURIC ACETATE; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MERB GENE; MERCURIALISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZENE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INDIA; LYASES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27744498335     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0013-2     Document Type: Article

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