Cloning and characterization of the chromosomal arsenic resistance genes from Acidithiobacillus caldus and enhanced arsenic resistance on conjugal transfer of ars genes located on transposon TnAtcArs

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3551-3560

  Kotze, Andre A ^a   Tuffin, I Marla ^a   Deane, Shelly M ^a   Rawlings, Douglas E ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARSENATES; ARSENITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMAMONADACEAE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; R FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; POLAROMONAS;

EID: 33845988006     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29247-0     Document Type: Article

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