Bacterial mercury resistance from atoms to ecosystems

T Barkay, SM Miller, AO Summers - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial resistance to inorganic and organic mercury compounds (HgR) is one of the most
widely observed phenotypes in eubacteria. Loci conferring HgR in Gram-positive or Gram …

The MerR family of transcriptional regulators

NL Brown, JV Stoyanov, SP Kidd… - FEMS microbiology …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The MerR family is a group of transcriptional activators with similar N-terminal helix-turn-
helix DNA binding regions and C-terminal effector binding regions that are specific to the …

Transposon Tn21, Flagship of the Floating Genome

CA Liebert, RM Hall, AO Summers - Microbiology and molecular …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The transposon Tn21 and a group of closely related transposons (the Tn21 family) are
involved in the global dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants in gram-negative …

Mechanisms of flavoprotein‐catalyzed reactions

S Ghisla, V Massey - European journal of biochemistry, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms of flavoproteinâ•’catalyzed reactions Page 1 t < FF’HS 1989 Re view
Mechanisms of flavoprotein-catalyzed reactions Sandro CHISLA‘ and Vincent MASSEY ’ …

Redesign of the coenzyme specificity of a dehydrogenase by protein engineering

NS Scrutton, A Berry, RN Perham - Nature, 1990 - nature.com
Directed mutagenesis and molecular modelling have been used to identify a set of amino-
acid side chains in glutathione reductase that confer specificity for the coenzyme NADP+ …

Modulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression by host microflora through interspecies communication

K Duan, C Dammel, J Stein, H Rabin… - Molecular …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The change in gene expression patterns in response to host environments is a prerequisite
for bacterial infection. Bacterial diseases often occur as an outcome of the complex …

The guanine and cytosine content of genomic DNA and bacterial evolution.

A Muto, S Osawa - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1987 - National Acad Sciences
The genomic guanine and cytosine (G+ C) content of eubacteria is related to their
phylogeny. The G+ C content of various parts of the genome (protein genes, stable RNA …

Isolation of a candidate gene for Menkes disease that encodes a potential heavy metal binding protein

J Chelly, Z Tümer, T Tønnesen, A Petterson… - Nature …, 1993 - nature.com
Menkes disease is a lethal–X linked recessive disorder associated with copper metabolism
disturbance. We have recently mapped two chromosome breakpoints related to this disease …

[PDF][PDF] PLASMID-MEDIATED HEAVY METi\L RESISTANCES

S Silver, TK Misra - Annual review of microbiology, 1988 - academia.edu
Many bacterial strains contain genetic determinants of resistances to heavy metals such as
Hg2+(and organomercurials), Ag+, AsOi, AsO-, Be+, BO-, Cd2+, C02+, cO-, Cu2+, Ni2+ …

The relationship between base composition and codon usage in bacterial genes and its use for the simple and reliable identification of protein-coding sequences

MJ Bibb, PR Findlay, MW Johnson - Gene, 1984 - Elsevier
Bacterial genes that code for proteins appear to possess a codon usage characteristic of
their overall base composition. This results in different but predictable non-random …