Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Lead Resistance and Sensitivity in Staphylococcus aureus
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
FEMS Microbiology Letters
ISSN
0378-1097
Publication Date
12-1996
Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus, Lead resistance, Lead uptake
Abstract
Five lead-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated. Plasmid-free lead-sensitive variants were obtained from the three plasmid-bearing strains. Lead-resistant strains tolerated an approximately 600 × higher Pb(NO3)2 concentration than lead-sensitive strains. Both types of strains initially bound lead, but only the resistant strains accumulated the metal as an intracellular lead-phosphate.
DOI
10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08610.x
Volume
145
Issue
3
First Page
421
Last Page
425
NSUWorks Citation
Hillel S. Levinson, Inga Mahler, Patricia Blackwelder, and Terri Hood. 1996. Lead Resistance and Sensitivity in Staphylococcus aureus .FEMS Microbiology Letters , (3) : 421 -425. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/439.
Comments
©1996 Federation of European Microbiological Societies.