Identification and functional characterization of MRE-binding transcription factor (MTF) in Crassostrea gigas and its conserved role in metal-induced response

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3321-3331

  Qiu, Jinrong ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Yu, Mingjia ^c   Pang, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Wenbo ^b   Xu, Zhencheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOA Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Crassostrea gigas; mRNA expression; MTF

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; METAL RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRASSOSTREA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS;

EID: 84878397781     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2407-0     Document Type: Article

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