Lead resistance in micro-organisms

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2014, Pages 12-25

  Jarosławiecka, Anna ^a   Piotrowska Seget, Zofia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADA PROTEIN; CADA2 PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LEAD; PBRA PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; SMTB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZNTA PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL WALL; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; EFFUSION; FUNGUS; LEAD RESISTANCE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

CUPRIAVIDUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; LEAD; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

EID: 84891618950     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.070284-0     Document Type: Review

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