Changes in the non-protein thiol pool and production of dissolved gaseous mercury in the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii under mercury exposure

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 286-293

  Morelli, Elisabetta ^a   Ferrara, Romano ^a   Bellini, Barbara ^a   Dini, Fernando ^b   Di Giuseppe, Graziano ^b   Fantozzi, Laura ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dissolved gaseous mercury; Mercury; Non protein thiols; Phytochelatins; Phytoplankton; Thalassiosira weissflogii

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR DENSITY; CELLULAR RESPONSE; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIUM; DARK CONDITIONS; DETOXIFICATION MECHANISM; DISSOLVED GASEOUS MERCURY; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONES; HG CONCENTRATIONS; INCUBATION TIME; INTRACELLULAR CONCENTRATION; INTRACELLULAR POOL; MARINE DIATOMS; MERCURY EXPOSURE; MERCURY SEQUESTRATION; METAL BINDING PEPTIDE; MOLAR RATIO; NON-PROTEIN THIOLS; PHYTOCHELATINS; TIME COURSE;

ALGAE CONTROL; AMINES; CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DETOXIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; LAKES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROCOMPUTERS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MERCURY (METAL);

GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY; PHYTOCHELATIN; THIOL;

DETOXIFICATION; DIATOM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; GROWTH RESPONSE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

ALGAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIATOM; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; DIATOMS; DIPEPTIDES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYTOCHELATINS; SEAWATER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; NITZSCHIA ALBA; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII;

EID: 71749098756     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.047     Document Type: Article

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