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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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-02-01
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Series: | Biomedical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417016000159 |