Nitric oxide releases intracellular zinc from prokaryotic metallothionein in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-126

  Binet, Marie R B ^a   Cruz Ramos, Hugo ^a   Laver, Jay ^a   Hughes, Martin N ^b   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial metallothionein; Escherichia coli; Nitric oxide; Zinc ATPase; Zinc homeostasis

Indexed keywords

3 (3 AMINOPROPYL) 1 HYDROXY 3 ISOPROPYL 2 OXO 1 TRIAZENE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NOC 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZN(II) TRANSLOCATING P TYPE ATPASE; ZN(II)-TRANSLOCATING P-TYPE ATPASE;

ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUSION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METALLOTHIONEIN; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ZINC; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037118631     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00803-0     Document Type: Article

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