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Sheep have an unusual variant of the brain-specific metallothionein, metallothionein-III.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Jul 2002
Chung Roger S, Holloway Adele F, Eckhardt Bedrich L, Harris Julie A, Vickers James C, Chuah Meng Inn, West Adrian K
Abstract excerpt
Sheep metallothionein-III (MT-III) cDNA was isolated from a brain cDNA library and characterized. In contrast with MT-III from other species, sheep MT-III cDNA is predicted to encode a protein with significantly different metal-binding properties, owing to the loss of three of its cysteine residues. RT-PCR from other sheep confirmed that this aberrant structure is ubiquitous in this species. MT-III was...
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