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Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-69771-8

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Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals includes chapters on allocation of metals in cells, metal transporter, storage and metalloregulatory proteins, cellular responses to metal ion stress, transcription of genes involved in metal ion homeostasis, uptake of essential metals, metal efflux and other detoxification mechanisms. Also discussed are metal bioreporters for the nanomolar range of concentration and tools to address the metallome. Chapters in the second part cover specific metals such as Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn and Mo as key nutrient elements and Ag, As, Cd, Hg and Cr as toxic elements.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Bioinorganic chemisty, Biometals, Biosensors, Inorganic metabolism, Metal ion homeostasis, Metalloproteins, enzymes, genes, metabolism, physiology, proteins, transcription