Effects of cadmium exposure on sea urchin development assessed by SSH and RT-qPCR: Metallothionein genes and their differential induction

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2157-2167

  Ragusa, Maria Antonietta ^a   Costa, Salvatore ^a   Gianguzza, Marco ^a   Roccheri, Maria Carmela ^a   Gianguzza, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Echinodermata; Embryonic development; Gene expression; Metallothionein; Multigene families

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPOSURE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; MT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PLMT4 GENE; PLMT5 GENE; PLMT6 GENE; PLMT7 GENE; PLMT8 GENE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 84878415860     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2275-7     Document Type: Article

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