Enhanced arsenic accumulation in engineered bacterial cells expressing ArsR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4582-4587

  Kostal, Jan ^a   Yang, Rosanna ^a   Wu, Cindy H ^a,b   Mulchandani, Ashok ^a   Chen, Wilfred ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; CELLS; CONTAMINATION; POLYPEPTIDES; WATER;

ARSENITE; BACTERIAL CELLS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADMIUM; ELASTIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN ARSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; ARSENITES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4143106828     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4582-4587.2004     Document Type: Article

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