Transcriptome response to heavy metal stress in Drosophila reveals a new zinc transporter that confers resistance to zinc

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4866-4877

  Yepiskoposyan, Hasmik ^a   Egli, Dieter ^a   Fergestad, Tim ^b   Selvaraj, Anand ^a   Treiber, Carina ^c   Multhaup, Gerd ^c   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CADMIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; COPPER; FERRITIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE D2; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE D5; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; LIM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE; METALLOTHIONEIN; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTF1; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DETOXIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CADMIUM; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; COPPER; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, INSECT; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; ZINC;

EID: 33750219660     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl606     Document Type: Article

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