Response to mercury (II) ions in Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 106-110

  Boden, Rich ^a   Murrell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heavy metal metabolism; Mercuric reductase; Methane oxidation; Methanotrophs; Radiorespirometry

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MESSENGER RNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE MERCURIC REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MERA GENE; METAL METABOLISM; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MERCURY; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; NAD; NADP; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS;

EID: 80054102511     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02395.x     Document Type: Article

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