Characterization of the transcription factor MTF-1 from the Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) reveals evolutionary conservation of heavy metal stress response

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-185

  Der Maur, Adrian Auf ^a   Belser, Tanja ^a   Elgar, Greg ^b   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MRC UK HGMP Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular stress response; Cosmid library; Housekeeping promoter; Metal responsive element; Metallothionein genes; MTF1; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXON; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033013532     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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