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Toxicity of copper, cobalt, and nickel salts is dependent on histidine metabolism in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 1999
Pearce D A, Sherman F
Abstract excerpt
The pH-dependent inhibition of 22 metal salts have been systematically investigated for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have established that the inhibition of growth by Cu, Co, or Ni salts is markedly enhanced by histidine auxotrophy and by increasing the pH of the medium. Each of the his1-his7 mutant strains were unable to grow in the presence of elevated levels of Cu, Co, or Ni at nearly neutral pHs, in...
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