Spectroscopic characterization of metallothionein from the terrestrial snail, Helix pomatia

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 268, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 4126-4133

  Dallinger, Reinhard ^a   Wang, Yunjuan ^b   Berger, Burkhard ^a   Mackay, Elaine A ^b   Kägi, Jeremias H R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cluster structure; Metallothionein; Optical spectroscopy; Snail

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; CADMIUM; CADMIUM BINDING PROTEIN; COORDINATION COMPOUND; COPPER; CYSTEINE; ISOPROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; SULFUR; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CELL PROTECTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GASTROPOD; HELIX POMATIA; METAL BINDING; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SNAIL; STOICHIOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COPPER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOTHIONEIN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SNAILS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZINC;

EID: 0034819321     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02318.x     Document Type: Article

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