Tolerance to toxic metals by a gene family of phytochelatin synthases from plants and yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3325-3333

  Clemens, Stephan ^a,b   Kim, Eugene J ^a   Neumann, Dieter ^b   Schroeder, Julian I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Metal tolerance; Metal toxicity; Phytochelatins; Phytoremediation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MUTANT; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL TREATMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CADMIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTATHIONE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRITICUM; VACUOLES;

EID: 0033564244     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.12.3325     Document Type: Article

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