Plasmids pMOL28 and pMOL30 of Cupriavidus metallidurans are specialized in the maximal viable response to heavy metals

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7417-7425

  Monchy, Sébastien ^a,b   Benotmane, Mohammed A ^a   Janssen, Paul ^a   Vallaeys, Tatiana ^c   Taghavi, Safiyh ^d   Van Der Lelie, Daniel ^d   Mergeay, Max ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; CATION; CHROMIUM; COBALT; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MERCURY; NICKEL; SILVER; TRANSPOSASE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHRI GENE; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; CZCJ GENE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MMRQ GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PBRU GENE; PLASMID; PLASMID MOL28; PLASMID MOL30; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RALSTONIA; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

CUPRIAVIDUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS;

EID: 35048813675     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00375-07     Document Type: Article

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