Bacterial resistance to arsenic protects against protist killing
Protists kill their bacterial prey using toxic metals such as copper. Here we hypothesize that the metalloid arsenic has a similar role. To test this hypothesis, we examined intracellular survival of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (D. discoideum). Deletion of the E...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43238/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43238/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43238/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43238/8/CR%20Frontier%20Perspective%20copper_Final%20revision%20SFM.pdf |