Global fitness profiling identifies arsenic and cadmium tolerance mechanisms in fission yeast

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3317-3333

  Guo, Lan ^a   Ganguly, Abantika ^a   Sun, Lingling ^b   Suo, Fang ^b   Du, Li Lin ^b   Russell, Paul ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cadmium; Heavy metals; Metal toxicity; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; METHIONINE; OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHYTOCHELATIN; SULFUR; THIOREDOXIN; UBIQUINONE; CARRIER PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; MMS19 PROTEIN, S POMBE; PYRIDOXINE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; METAL TOLERANCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXISOME; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; INTOXICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MUTATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CADMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC FITNESS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METALS, HEAVY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXISOMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOCHELATINS; POISONING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VITAMIN B 6;

EID: 84994635716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.033829     Document Type: Article

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