Isolation and characterization of a novel copper-inducible metallothionein gene of a ciliate, Tetrahymena tropicalis lahorensis

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 630-644

  Chaudhry, Raheela ^a   Shakoori, Abdul Rauf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Copper resistance gene; Heavy metals; Metallothioneins; Tetrahymena tropicalis lahorensis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ANAZOLENE SODIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPPER METALLOTHIONEIN; CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS LAHORENSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TETRAHYMENA;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA TROPICALIS;

EID: 77952707252     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22573     Document Type: Article

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