Chemical foundation of the attenuation of methylmercury(II) cytotoxicity by metallothioneins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1323-1328

  Leiva Presa, Àngels ^a   Capdevila, Mercè ^a   Cols, Neus ^b   Atrian, Silvia ^b   González Duarte, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Metallothionein; Metallothionein; Methylmercury(II) binding; Methylmercury(II) toxicity; Methylmercury(II) metallothionein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA METALLOTHIONEIN; BETA METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRONS; FERMENTATION; IONS; METALLOPROTEINS; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZINC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1942455797     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04039.x     Document Type: Article

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