Metal binding ability of metallothionein-3 expressed in Escherichia coli

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Toriumi, Shigeru ^a   Saito, Takeshi ^b   Hosokawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Takahashi, Yasumitsu ^b   Numata, Takuya ^c   Kurasaki, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hakodate Junior College   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,5' DITHIOBIS(2 NITROBENZOIC ACID); METALLOTHIONEIN III;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; METAL BINDING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEURITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOICHIOMETRY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DITHIONITROBENZOIC ACID; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGANDS; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 15944368278     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2005.pto960404.x     Document Type: Article

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