Metalloid tolerance based on phytochelatins is not functionally equivalent to the arsenite transporter Acr3p

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 293-300

  Wysocki, Robert ^a   Clemens, Stephan ^b   Augustyniak, Daria ^a   Golik, Pawel ^c,d   Maciaszczyk, Ewa ^a   Tamás, Markus J ^e   Dziadkowiec, Dorota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Metalloid; Phytochelatin; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN ACR3P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; METAL TOLERANCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SENSITIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

NEMATODA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0345381938     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00584-9     Document Type: Article

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