Genomic analyses reveal a conserved glutathione homeostasis pathway in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-194

  Nava, Gerardo M ^a   Lee, David Y ^a   Ospina, Javier H ^a   Cai, Shi Ying ^b,c   Gaskins, H Rex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Glutamate cysteine ligase; Oxidative stress; Redox; Toxicogenomics

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; TERT BUTYLHYDROQUINONE; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DETOXIFICATION; FILTER FEEDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TOXICOGENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; RATTUS;

EID: 72949122126     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00025.2009     Document Type: Article

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