Interactive effects of CO2 and trace metals on the proteasome activity and cellular stress response of marine bivalves Crassostrea virginica and Mercenaria mercenaria

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-82

  Götze, Sandra ^a,b   Matoo, Omera B ^b   Beniash, Elia ^c   Saborowski, Reinhard ^a   Sokolova, Inna M ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Copper; Hypercapnia; Ocean acidification; Protein turnover; Ubiquitin proteasome system

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CADMIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CASPASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COPPER; FERRITIN; GLYCOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN P53; SEA WATER; TRYPSIN; UBIQUITIN;

ACIDIFICATION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIVALVE; CADMIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METABOLISM; PH; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; RNA; SEAWATER; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CELL STRESS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXPOSURE; HYPERCAPNIA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; HYPERCAPNIA; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; PROTEIN TURNOVER; UBIQUITIN-PROTEASOME SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER; CRASSOSTREA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GILLS; MERCENARIA; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84896689935     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.01.027     Document Type: Article

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