A synthetic cadmium metallothionein gene (PMCd1syn) of Paramecium species: Expression, purification and characteristics of metallothionein protein

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 983-997

  Dar, Saira ^a   Shuja, Rukhsana N ^a   Shakoori, Abdul Rauf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Ciliate protozoan; Metallothionein; PMCd1 gene; PMCd1syn gene; Synthetic gene

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; PMCD1SYN GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; INCLUSION BODIES; METALLOTHIONEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAMECIUM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MYXOZOA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM SP.; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84878349184     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2140-8     Document Type: Article

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