Earthworms Produce phytochelatins in Response to Arsenic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Liebeke, Manuel ^a   Garcia Perez, Isabel ^a   Anderson, Craig J ^b,c,d   Lawlor, Alan J ^b   Bennett, Mark H ^a   Morris, Ceri A ^c   Kille, Peter ^c   Svendsen, Claus ^b   Spurgeon, David J ^b   Bundy, Jacob G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; METHIONINE; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE; SULFUR; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYSTEINYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; MINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOCHELATIN SYNTHASE GENE; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHELATINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84896692427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081271     Document Type: Article

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