Structural and functional analysis of metal regulatory elements in the promoter region of genes encoding metallothionein isoforms in the Antarctic fish Chionodraco hamatus (icefish)

Gene

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 199-208

  Scudiero, Rosaria ^a   Carginale, Vincenzo ^b   Capasso, Clemente ^b   Riggio, Marilisa ^a   Filosa, Stefania ^c   Parisi, Elio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Gene regulation; Luciferase reporter gene; Metal responsive elements (MREs); Transfection; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; ISOPROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC ION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA VECTOR; FISH; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC;

CHIONODRACO HAMATUS;

EID: 0035934177     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00609-6     Document Type: Article

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