Determination of the Cd/S cluster stoichiometry in Fucus vesiculosus metallothionein

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-375

  Merrifield, Maureen E ^a   Chaseley, Jennifer ^b   Kille, Peter ^b   Stillman, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CYSTEINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; SULFUR; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; CRAB; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; LOBSTER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FUCUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEAWEED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SULFUR; ZINC;

ALGAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645466820     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx050206j     Document Type: Article

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