Identification and cloning of first cadmium metallothionein like gene from locally isolated ciliate, Paramecium sp.

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 549-560

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cadmium metallothionein gene; Metallothionein gene; Paramecium sp.; PMCd1

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM SP.; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 60549107238     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-008-9213-8     Document Type: Article

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