1. A gene from pea (Pisum sativum L.) with homology to metallothionein genes
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Nigel J. Robinson, John A. Gatehouse, Ronald R. D. Croy, I. Marta Evans, and L. N. Gatehouse
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PsMTA ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Biophysics ,Biology ,Metal metabolism ,Biochemistry ,Homology (biology) ,Pisum ,(Pisum sattivum) ,Sativum ,Structural Biology ,Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ,Complementary DNA ,Genetics ,Metallothionein ,5' Flanking sequence ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Molecular Biology ,Gene ,Plants, Medicinal ,Base Sequence ,Nucleic acid sequence ,food and beverages ,Fabaceae ,DNA ,Cell Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Molecular biology - Abstract
While searching for ‘organ-specific’ genes in pea ( Pisum sativum L.) we have isolated a gene (designated PsMT A ) which has an ORF encoding a predicted protein with some similarity to metallothioneins (MTs). The PsMT A transcript is abundant in roots which have not been exposed to elevated concentrations of trace metals.
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- 1990
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