Damage control: regulating defenses against toxic metals and metalloids

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 138-144

  Summers, Anne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; GOLD; LEAD; MERCURY; MERR PROTEIN; METAL; NICKEL; PROTEIN ARSR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SELENIUM; SILVER; TELLURIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; HOMEOSTASIS; METAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; METALS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 63749128999     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.02.003     Document Type: Review

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