Predicting copper toxicity with its intracellular or subcellular concentration and the thiol synthesis in a marine diatom

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1777-1782

  Miao, Ai Jun ^a   Wang, Wen Xiong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TOXICITY;

ION CONCENTRATION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT (LMW); PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

AMMONIA; COPPER; CYSTEINE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

COPPER; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TOXICITY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DIATOM; GROWTH RESPONSE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PREDICTION; TOXICITY TEST;

AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DETOXIFICATION; DIATOM; FLUOROMETRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOTOXICITY;

COPPER; DIATOMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

NITZSCHIA ALBA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 33847666366     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0613963     Document Type: Article

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