Engineering the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida for arsenic methylation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4493-4495

  Chen, Jian ^a,b   Qin, Jie ^a   Zhu, Yong Guan ^b,c   de Lorenzo, Víctor ^d   Rosen, Barry P ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; INORGANIC ARSENIC; METHYLTRANSFERASES; ORGANOARSENICALS; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SOIL BACTERIUM;

ALKYLATION; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

ALGAL PROTEIN; ARSENIC; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARSENIC; BIOREMEDIATION; CHROMOSOME; FOOD SAFETY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEALTH RISK; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL POLLUTANT; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84879806943     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01133-13     Document Type: Article

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