Aedes aegypti ferritin: A cytotoxic protector against iron and oxidative challenge?

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3667-3674

  Geiser, Dawn L ^a,b   Chavez, Carrie A ^c   Flores Munguia, Roberto ^a   Winzerling, Joy J ^a,b   Pham, Daphne Q D ^c  

^a Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti mosquito; Alternative splicing; Iron; Light chain ferritin; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AEDES AEGYPTI; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; IRON STORAGE; MALE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AEDES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPROTECTION; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HEMIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141447418     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03709.x     Document Type: Article

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