Translocatable resistance to mercuric and phenylmercuric ions in soil bacteria
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 147 (3) , 1110-1112
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.147.3.1110-1112.1981
Abstract
Of a sample of 42 gram-negative Hg-resistant bacteria, three (a Pseudomonas fluorescens, a Klebsiella sp. and a Citrobacter sp.) contained translocatable elements conferring resistance to Hg2+ (all three) and to Hg2+ and phenylmercuric acetate (P. fluorescens). The discovery of transposable phenylmercuric acetate resistance extends the range of known resistance "transposons" from heavy metals and antibiotics to organometallic compounds.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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