Regulation of phytochelatin synthesis by zinc and cadmium in marine green alga, Dunaliella tertiolecta

Phytochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 453-459

  Tsuji, Naoki ^a   Hirayanagi, Nayumi ^a   Iwabe, Osamu ^a   Namba, Takashi ^a   Tagawa, Mariko ^a   Miyamoto, Shiho ^a   Miyasaka, Hitoshi ^b   Takagi, Masahiro ^c   Hirata, Kazumasa ^a   Miyamoto, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamylcysteine synthetase; Cadmium; Dunaliella tertiolecta; Glutathione; Glutathione synthetase; Phytochelatin synthase; Phytochelatins; Reactive oxygen species; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE; HEAVY METAL; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GREEN ALGA; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; SYNTHESIS;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; CADMIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INDUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; ZINC;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; DUNALIELLA; DUNALIELLA TERTIOLECTA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 12244271433     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00559-9     Document Type: Article

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