Identification of genes conferring arsenic resistance to Escherichia coli from an effluent treatment plant sludge metagenomic library

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 130-139

  Chauhan, Nar Singh ^a,b   Ranjan, Ravi ^a   Purohit, Hemant J ^c   Kalia, Vipin C ^a   Sharma, Rakesh ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Acetyltransferase; Arsenic resistance; Metagenomic

Indexed keywords

ARSENATE SODIUM; ARSENIC;

ANTIMONY; CLONE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER DEHALOGENANS; ARSN GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; METAGENOMICS; METHYLIBIUM PETROLEIPHILUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE TREATMENT;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ANAEROMYXOBACTER DEHALOGENANS 2CP-C; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLIBIUM PETROLEIPHILUM;

EID: 57449088406     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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