Identification, cloning and sequencing of a novel stress inducible metallothionein gene from locally isolated Tetrahymena tropicalis lahorensis

Gene

Volumn 405, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 19-26

  Shuja, Rukhsana N ^a   Shakoori, Abdul Rauf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ciliate; Cysteine rich coding region; Stress inducible metallothionein; Tetrahymena tropicalis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; GENOMIC DNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INDUCIBLE METALLOTHIONEIN GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TATA BOX; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PIGMENTOSA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TETRAHYMENA;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PIGMENTOSA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS;

EID: 35548995934     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.08.019     Document Type: Article

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