A stress-responsive glutathione S-transferase confers resistance to oxidative stress in Caenorhabditis elegans

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1405-1415

  Leiers, Britta ^a,c   Kampkötter, Andreas ^a   Grevelding, Christoph G ^a   Link, Christopher D ^b   Johnson, Thomas E ^b   Henkle Dührsen, Kimberly ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free radicals; GST; RNA interference; Stress resistance; Transgene overexpression

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0038707371     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(03)00102-3     Document Type: Article

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