Nickel and cobalt resistance engineered in Escherichia coli by overexpression of serine acetyltransferase from the nickel hyperaccumulator plant Thlaspi goesingense

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8627-8633

  Freeman, John L ^a,b   Persans, Michael W ^a,c   Nieman, Ken ^a   Salt, David E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; COBALT; ENZYME KINETICS; NICKEL; SULFUR; ZINC;

COBALT RESISTSNCE; CYSTEIN REGULON; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM; COBALT; GLUTATHIONE; NICKEL; O ACETYLSERINE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

BIOENGINEERING; COBALT; NICKEL; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; COBALT RESISTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METAL TOLERANCE; NICKEL RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; THLASPI; THLASPI GOESINGENSE;

COBALT; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUTATHIONE; KINETICS; NICKEL; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; THLASPI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THLASPI; THLASPI GOESINGENSE;

EID: 29144509819     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8627-8633.2005     Document Type: Article

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