The identification, cloning and characterization of earthworm metallothionein

FEBS Letters

Volumn 431, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 437-442

  Sturzenbaum S R ^a   Kille, P ^a   Morgan, A J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthworm; Heavy metal pollution; Lumbricus rubellus; Metallothionein; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EARTHWORM; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0242609000     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00809-6     Document Type: Article

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