Physiological characterization of cadmium-exposed Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2071-2082

  Bräutigam, Anja ^a,c   Schaumlöffel, Dirk ^b   Preud'Homme, Hugues ^b   Thondorf, Iris ^a   Wesenberg, Dirk ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c Landeskriminalamt Sachsen Anhalt   (Germany)

Author keywords

glutamyl transpeptidase; Cadmium; Glutathione; Phytochelatin synthase; Phytochelatins

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASE; CADMIUM; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYSTEINYLTRANSFERASE; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DETOXIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; HOMOLOGY; INHIBITOR; ION; METABOLISM; PEPTIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; CADMIUM; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PHYTOCHELATINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

ALGAE; ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 80855132784     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02404.x     Document Type: Article

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