The Pb-hyperaccumulator aquatic fern Salvinia minima Baker, responds to Pb2+ by increasing phytochelatins via changes in SmPCS expression and in phytochelatin synthase activity

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 320-328

  Estrella Gomez N ^a   Mendoza Cozatl D ^b   Moreno Sanchez R ^b   Gonzalez Mendoza D ^b,c   Zapata Perez O ^c   Martinez Hernandez A ^d   Santamaria J M ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

^d Colegio de Posgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aquatic fern; Lead accumulation; Phytochelatin synthase; Phytochelatins; SmPCS gene

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CATION; CHELATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERACCUMULATION; LEAD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; ROOT SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERN; FROND; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SALVINIA MINIMA; SMPCS GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; FERNS; FRESH WATER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LEAD; PHYTOCHELATINS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FILICOPHYTA; SALVINIA MINIMA;

EID: 60049089363     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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