The legless lizard Anguis fragilis (slow worm) has a potent metal-responsive transcription factor 1 (MTF-1)

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 395, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 425-431

  Georgieva, Oleg ^a   Günthera, Viola ^a   Steiner, Kurt ^a   Schönrath, Katharina ^a   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cadmium toxicity; longevity; metal homeostasis; metal regulatory transcription factor; nuclear export signal (NES); zinc induced transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CADMIUM; METAL RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTF-1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGUIS FRAGILIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIZARDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896750054     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2013-0293     Document Type: Article

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