The role of glutathione biosynthesis in heavy metal resistance in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 303-308

  Coblenz, Anke ^a   Wolf, Klaus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Glutathione; Phytochelatins; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Glutamylcysteine synthetase

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE; HEAVY METAL; PHYTOCHELATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CADMIUM; COPPER; DRUG RESISTANCE; GLUTATHIONE; METALLOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0027981071     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1994.tb00103.x     Document Type: Article

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