Cloning and sequencing of cDNAs encoding for a novel copper-specific metallothionein and two cadmium-inducible metallothioneins from the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 325-332

  Syring, Rachel A ^a   Hoexum Brouwer, Thea ^a   Brouwer, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; cDNA; Copper; Crustacea; Hemocyanin; Metallothionein; Molecular phylogeny; Mollusks

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEMOCYANIN; ISOENZYME; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYURA; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPPER; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIVER; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0034112893     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(99)00114-0     Document Type: Article

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