Characterization of the ars gene cluster from extremely arsenic-resistant microbacterium sp. Strain A33

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 948-955

  Achour Rokbani, Asma ^a   Cordi, Audrey ^a   Poupin, Pascal ^a   Bauda, Pascale ^a   Billard, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b Faculté des Sciences et Technologies   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC RESISTANCE; CATALYTIC CYSTEINE RESIDUE; FUSION GENES; GENE CLUSTERS; MICROBACTERIUM SP; THIOREDOXINS;

ARSENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS;

GENE ENCODING;

ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN;

BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARSENATE REDUCTASES; ARSENIC; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ATPASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIOREDOXINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBACTERIUM SP.;

EID: 75749134897     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01738-09     Document Type: Article

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