Cadmium metallothionein gene of Tetrahymena pyriformis

Gene

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-59

  Piccinni, Ester ^a   Bertaggia, Debora ^a   Santovito, Gianfranco ^a   Miceli, Cristina ^b   Kraev, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Gene duplication; Genetic code; Inducible promoters; Vectorette

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 0032967071     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00181-X     Document Type: Article

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