The plant MT1 metallothioneins are stabilized by binding cadmium and are required for cadmium tolerance and accumulation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 839-855

  Zimeri, Anne Marie ^a,b   Dhankher, Om Parkash ^a,c   McCaig, Bonnie ^d   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine spacing pattern; Evolution; Metal accumulation; RNA interference; Thiol reactivity

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; GENES; IONS; PROTEINS; RNA;

CYSTEINE SPACING PATTERN; METAL ACCUMULATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; THIOL REACTIVITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CADMIUM; METALLOTHIONEIN; MT1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MT1B PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MT1C PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CYSTEINE; EVOLUTION; GENES; IONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26944461643     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-8268-3     Document Type: Article

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