Bacterial sensing of and resistance to gold salts

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1307-1318

  Checa, Susana K ^a   Espariz, Martín ^a   Audero, María E Pérez ^a   Botta, Pablo E ^a   Spinelli, Silvana V ^a   Soncini, Fernando C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD SALT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; METAL BINDING; METAL TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SALMONELLA; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GOLD; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SALMONELLA;

EID: 33846998317     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05590.x     Document Type: Article

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