Metallothionein gene expression in embryos of the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-46

  Cserjesi, Peter ^a,b   Fang, Hung ^a,c   Brandhorst, Bruce P ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

development; effect of heavy metals on; evolution; gene; gene expression; gene promoters; induced; metal; regulation; regulatory elements; transcriptional

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEA URCHIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ANTISENSE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS PICTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030984604     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199705)47:1<39::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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