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Plasmids as Secondary Chromosomes

Max Mergeay, Rob Van Houdt in Molecular Life Sciences (2018)

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The History of Cupriavidus metallidurans Strains Isolated from Anthropogenic Environments

The multiple metal-resistant Cupriavidus metallidurans strain CH34 is quite a latecomer on the scene of transposon- and plasmid-mediated resistance to heavy metals. Yet, straightaway it was remarkable because of ...

Max Mergeay in Metal Response in Cupriavidus metallidurans (2015)

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Response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 to Metals

Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 displays resistance to a plethora of metals. Its response and underlying genetic determinants are dissected and detailed metal by metal (from arseni...

Pieter Monsieurs, Jon Hobman… in Metal Response in Cupriavidus metallidurans (2015)

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Metal Response in Cupriavidus metallidurans: Insights into the Structure-Function Relationship of Proteins

Bacteria such as Cupriavidus metallidurans have developed different strategies for tolerating toxic levels of metal ions. Metal ion resistance requires the contribution of multiple layers of mechanisms, the most ...

Guy Vandenbussche, Max Mergeay… in Metal Response in Cupriavidus metallidurans (2015)

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Genomic Context of Metal Response Genes in Cupriavidus metallidurans with a Focus on Strain CH34

Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 has been studied for over 30 years, mostly because of its resistance to numerous heavy metals. Many of these metal resistance determinants were rapi...

Rob Van Houdt, Max Mergeay in Metal Response in Cupriavidus metallidurans (2015)

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Plasmids as Secondary Chromosomes

Max Mergeay, Rob Van Houdt in Molecular Life Sciences

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Adaptation to Xenobiotics and Toxic Compounds by Cupriavidus and Ralstonia with Special Reference to Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 and Mobile Genetic Elements

The purpose of this book chapter is to give a view of the relationships between mobile genetic elements and genes related to environmental adaptations, and the development of new catabolic properties but also ...

Max Mergeay, Rob Van Houdt in Biodegradative Bacteria (2014)

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Heavy metal resistance in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 is governed by an intricate transcriptional network

The soil bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 contains a high number of heavy metal resistance genes making it an interesting model organism to study microbial responses to heavy metals. In this study the tra...

Pieter Monsieurs, Hugo Moors, Rob Van Houdt, Paul J. Janssen, Ann Janssen… in BioMetals (2011)

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Diversity of endophytic bacteria from the cuprophytes Haumaniastrum katangense and Crepidorhopalon tenuis

Haumaniastrum katangense and Crepidorhopalon tenuis are two cuprophytes characteristic of the Katangan Copper Belt flora. We have studied the endophytic bacteria of H. katangense and C. tenuis as a first step to ...

Alfred Cubaka Kabagale, Bertrand Cornu, Françoise van Vliet… in Plant and Soil (2010)

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Plasmids captured in C. metallidurans CH34: defining the PromA family of broad-host-range plasmids

The self-transmissible, broad-host-range (BHR) plasmid pMOL98 was previously isolated from polluted soil using a triparental plasmid capture approach and shown to possess a replicon similar to that of the BHR ...

Géraldine A. Van der Auwera, Jaroslaw E. Król, Haruo Suzuki… in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009)

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New mobile genetic elements in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34, their possible roles and occurrence in other bacteria

Cupriavidus metallidurans strain CH34 is a β-Proteobacterium that thrives in low concentrations of heavy metals. The genetic determinants of resistance to heavy metals are located on its two chromosomes, and are ...

Rob Van Houdt, Sébastien Monchy, Natalie Leys, Max Mergeay in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009)

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ArsR arsenic-resistance regulatory protein from Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34

The Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 arsR gene, which is part of the arsRIC ₂ BC _{1 ...}

Yian-Biao Zhang, Sébastien Monchy, Bill Greenberg, Max Mergeay… in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009)

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Lead(II) resistance in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34: interplay between plasmid and chromosomally-located functions

Proteome and transcriptome analysis, combined with mutagenesis, were used to better understand the response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 against lead(II). Structural Pb(II)-resistance genes of the pMOL30-enc...

Safiyh Taghavi, Celine Lesaulnier, Sebastien Monchy… in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009)

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The response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 to spaceflight in the international space station

The survival and behavior of Cupriavidus metallidurans strain CH34 were tested in space. In three spaceflight experiments, during three separate visits to the ‘International Space Station’ (ISS), strain CH34 was ...

Natalie Leys, Sarah Baatout, Caroline Rosier, Annik Dams… in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009)

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Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Cupriavidus metallidurans LMG 1195 (CH34) Cultured in Low-shear Microgravity Conditions

In this study, the effect of low-shear microgravity on the metabolism of Cupriavidus metallidurans LMG 1195 was studied with Raman spectroscopy. Therefore, the strain was cultured for 24 or 48 h in a rotating wal...

Joke De Gelder, Peter Vandenabeele… in Microgravity Science and Technology (2009)