Metallothionein gene from Tetrahymena thermophila with a copper-inducible-repressible promoter

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 422-425

  Boldrin, Francesco ^a   Santovito, Gianfranco ^a   Gaertig, Jacek ^b   Wloga, Dorota ^b   Cassidy Hanley, Donna ^c   Clark, Theodore G ^c   Piccinni, Ester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; COPPER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 32844475898     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.5.2.422-425.2006     Document Type: Article

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