Worms take the 'phyto' out of 'phytochelatins'

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 61-64

  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

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHELATION; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGI; HEAVY METALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYPEPTIDES; REMEDIATION;

CLINICAL PARASITOLOGICAL;

ENZYMES;

ANTIDOTE; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MERCURY; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; ZINC;

DETOXIFICATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODING; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; CAENORHABDITIS; GLUTATHIONE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALLOPROTEINS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, ANIMAL; OSMOSIS; SCHISTOSOMA;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 0036467760     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7799(01)01873-X     Document Type: Review

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