The four members of the Drosophila metallothionein family exhibit distinct yet overlapping roles in heavy metal homeostasis and detoxification

Genes to Cells

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 647-658

  Egli, Dieter ^a   Domènech, Jordi ^b   Selvaraj, Anand ^a   Balamurugan, Kuppusamy ^a   Hua, Haiqing ^a   Capdevila, Mercè ^c   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a   Atrian, Sílvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN A; METALLOTHIONEIN B; METALLOTHIONEIN C; METALLOTHIONEIN D; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EYE DISEASE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HOMEOSTASIS; METAL BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CADMIUM; COPPER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33646735728     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.00971.x     Document Type: Article

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