Identification of two metallothionein genes and their roles in stress responses of Musca domestica toward hyperthermy and cadmium tolerance

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 81-88

  Tang, Ting ^a   Huang, Da wei ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   Wu, Yin jian ^a   Murphy, Robert W ^b,c   Liu, Feng song ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Heat shock; Metallothionein; Musca domestica; Stress response

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAVY METAL; HYBRID PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METALLOTHIONEIN II;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEAT SHOCK; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOUSE FLY; HYPERTHERMIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRESS; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UPREGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80052152736     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: 18791107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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