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Arousing sleeping genes: shifts in secondary metabolism of metal tolerant actinobacteria under conditions of heavy metal stress.
Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine - 1 Apr 2009
Haferburg Götz, Groth Ingrid, Möllmann Ute, Kothe Erika, Sattler Isabel
Abstract excerpt
Numerous microbial habitats are strongly influenced by elevated levels of heavy metals. This type of habitat has developed either due to ore mining and metal processing or by pedogenesis above metal-rich base rocks. Most actinobacteria are soil-borne microbes with a remarkable capability for the...
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