Roles of the conserved serines of metallothionein in cadmium binding

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 239-251

  Emoto, Tadasu ^a   Kurasaki, Masaaki ^a   Oikawa, Shinji ^a,b   Suzuki Kurasaki, Mika ^a   Okabe, Masashi ^a   Yamasaki, Futoshi ^a   Kojima, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; expression; metal binding ability; metallothionein; mutagenesis; serine

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEUCINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SERINE; THIOLACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METAL BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029800874     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02407022     Document Type: Article

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