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Unusual resistance and acquired tolerance to cadmium chloride in Enterococcus faecalis
J M Laplace1, P Boutibonnes, Y Auffray
1Laboratoire de Microbiologie de I'Environnement, Université de Caen, France. lme@clenche.msh.unicaen.fr
Journal of Basic Microbiology
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
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.