The bacterial thiopurine methyltransferase tellurite resistance process is highly dependent upon aggregation properties and oxidative stress response

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2645-2660

  Prigent Combaret, Claire ^a,b,c   Sanguin, Hervé ^b,c,e   Champier, Ludovic ^a,c   Bertrand, Cédric ^c   Monnez, Claire ^a,c   Colinon, Céline ^a,c   Blaha, Didier ^a,c   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^d   Cournoyer, Benoit ^a,c  

^a Research group on Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment   (France)

^b Research group on Rhizosphere   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; METHYLTRANSFERASE; TELLURIUM; TELLUROUS ACID; THIOPURINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MUTATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TELLURIUM;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867207978     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02802.x     Document Type: Article

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