Mercury resistance in Sporosarcina sp. G3

BioMetals

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 301-309

  Bafana, Amit ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Degenerate primer; Firmicutes; Gram positive; merA; Mercuric reductase

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; MERCURY; MERCURY (II) REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; COBALT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MERCURIC REDUCTASE GENE; METAL METABOLISM; METAL TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPOROSARCINA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; FIRMICUTES; POSIBACTERIA; SPOROSARCINA; SPOROSARCINA SP.;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPOROSARCINA; ZINC;

EID: 79959492742     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: 15728773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-010-9396-z     Document Type: Article

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