Life and death with arsenic

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 350-357

  Rosen, Barry P ^a   Ajees, A Abdul ^a   Mcdermott, Timothy R ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenate; Arsenic life; Ester hydrolysis; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARSENIC; DNA; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORUS; RNA; SUGAR PHOSPHATE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RHIZOBIUM;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79954594100     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100012     Document Type: Article

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