Use of microcalorimetry to determine the costs and benefits to Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 of harboring cadmium efflux genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-113

  Gibbons, Sean M ^a   Feris, Kevin ^b   McGuirl, Michele A ^a   Morales, Sergio E ^a,c   Hynninen, Anu ^d   Ramsey, Philip W ^c   Gannon, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chief Dull Knife College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM RESISTANCE; CADMIUM STRESS; COSTS AND BENEFITS; EFFLUX TRANSPORTER; ENERGETIC COSTS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH PHASE; GENE DELETION; GROWTH YIELD; HEAVY METAL CATIONS; KNOCKOUT STRAINS; LAG PHASIS; MAIN COMPONENT; METAL RESISTANCES; MICRO-CALORIMETRY; MUTANT STRAIN; P-TYPE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA STRAIN; RESISTANCE GENES; SOIL BACTERIUM; WILD TYPES; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; METALS;

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CADMIUM; CALORIMETRY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; ION EXCHANGE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CALORIMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

CADMIUM; CALORIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 79251619060     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01187-10     Document Type: Article

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