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Arsenic sensing and resistance system in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2003
López-Maury Luis, Florencio Francisco J, Reyes José C
Abstract excerpt
Arsenic is one of the most important global environmental pollutants. Here we show that the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 contains an arsenic and antimony resistance operon consisting of three genes: arsB, encoding a putative arsenite and antimonite carrier, arsH, encoding a protein of unknown function, and arsC, encoding a putative arsenate reductase. While arsB mutant strains were sensitive...
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