Arsenic methylation and volatilization by arsenite s-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase in Pseudomonas alcaligenes NBRC14159

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2852-2860

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Cao, Tingting ^a   Tang, Zhu ^a   Shen, Qirong ^a   Rosen, Barry P ^b   Zhao, Fang Jie ^a,c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; DETOXIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALCALIGENES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INORGANIC ARSENIC; METHYLTRANSFERASES; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRIMETHYLARSENIC;

METHYLATION;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; VOLATILIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES;

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENITE METHYLTRANSFERASE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENITES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84927795051     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03804-14     Document Type: Article

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