MTT2, a copper-inducible metallothionein gene from Tetrahymena thermophila

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-240

  Boldrin, Francesco ^a   Santovito, Gianfranco ^a   Formigari, Alessia ^a   Bisharyan, Yelena ^b   Cassidy Hanley, Donna ^b   Clark, Theodore G ^b   Piccinni, Ester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Metallothioneins; Recombinant protein expression; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COPPER; CYSTEINE; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS MULTIFILIIS; MTT2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS MULTIFILIIS; INVERTEBRATA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37549031755     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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