The MerE protein encoded by transposon Tn21 is a broad mercury transporter in Escherichia coli

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1127-1131

  Kiyono, Masako ^a   Sone, Yuka ^a   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^a   Pan Hou, Hidemitsu ^b   Sakabe, Kou ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mercurial resistance; merE; Methylmercury transport; Transposon Tn21

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MERE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 62849124027     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.02.039     Document Type: Article

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