Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB102001) ;Basic Research Group Programs of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. E039254)
Metallothionein expression induced by nickel accumulation in the midgut of Spodoptera litura Fabri- cius larvae was investigated by exposing S. litura larvae to the artificial diets amended with different doses of nic...
Supported by the State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China (Grant No. 2006CB101706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30270753 & 30370804)
Metallothioneins (MTs) are a group of low molecular mass and cysteine-rich proteins that can chelate heavy-metal ions. In this paper,Northern blot analysis was used to investigate the influence of lead stress on the e...
A new gene of metallothionein (MT) family was cloned from garlic (Allium sativum) seed-lings using RACE method and designated AsMT2b. The full length of AsMT2b cDNA was 520 bp encod-ing 80 amino acids. The deduced ami...
Mouse metallothionein (MT) domain mutant ββ-cDNA gene has been inserted into the plant expression vector pGPTVd35S which has herbicide (PPT)-resistance gene bar as a selective marker. The chimeric gene was introduce...
Generally, there are two major isoforms of me-tallothionein (MT) in mammals. In this study two cDNAs of metallothionein, MT-A and MT-B, in a fresh-water fish, crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri), were cloned by the rapid...
Kiwifruit metallothionein, kiwi503, is a typical plant metallothionein protein. It has 63 amino acid residues in two cysteine-rich regions and one spacer region of about 32 residues. In this note, the two cysteine-ric...
Northern blot analysis showed that a metallothionein gene, ricMT is expressed strongly in the stem of rice with an expression level that could be more than 100-fold stronger than in leaf blades. The results suggest th...
Metallothionein (MT) is a protein with low molecular weight that contains anunusually high amount of cysteine (33 mol%) and is capable of binding a variety ofmetal ions, commonly Zn, Cd, and Cu. Since MT was first dis...
1 Introduction Metallothionein (MT), having low molecular weight and rich metal and thiol, are inducible proteins and widely distributed in nature. Many studies have suggested that the protein can play an important ro...