Unusual resistance and acquired tolerance to cadmium chloride in Enterococcus faecalis.
Enterococcus faecalis exhibits an extremely high natural resistance to cadmium which can be even raised by a conditioning treatment at a lower cadmium concentration as well as by a previous exposure to a sublethal temperature. By contrast, thermotolerance is not significantly induced by previous exposure to low cadmium concentration. The synthesis of several proteins is markedly enhanced by a low concentration of the chemical agent.
Laboratoire de Microbiologie de I'Environnement, Université de Caen, France. lme@clenche.msh.unicaen.fr
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D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019256:Cadmium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004361:Drug Tolerance; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D006358:Hot Temperature
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D019256:Cadmium Chloride