A new pathway for heavy metal detoxification in animals. Phytochelatin synthase is required for cadmium tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 276, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 20817-20820

  Vatamaniuk, Olena K ^a   Bucher, Elizabeth A ^a   Ward, James T ^a   Rea, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; FUNGI; MERCURY (METAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

PHYTOCHELATINS;

DETOXIFICATION;

CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASE; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GLUTATHIONE GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYSTEINYLTRANSFERASE; METALLOPROTEIN; PHYTOCHELATINS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METAL BINDING; METAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GLUTATHIONE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALLOPROTEINS; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035877698     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C100152200     Document Type: Article

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