New mechanisms of bacterial arsenic resistance

Arsenic is the most pervasive environmental substance and is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Group 1 human carcinogen. Nearly every organism has resistance pathways for inorganic arsenic, and in bacteria, their genes are found in arsenic resistance (ars) operons. R...

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Main Authors: Hung-Chi Yang, Barry P. Rosen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-02-01
Series:Biomedical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417016000159