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Purine biosynthetic genes are required for cadmium tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Dec 1992
Speiser D M, Ortiz D F, Kreppel L, Scheel G, McDonald G, Ow D W
Abstract excerpt
Phytochelatins (PCs) are metal-chelating peptides produced in plants and some fungi in response to heavy metal exposure. A Cd-sensitive mutant of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, defective in production of a PC-Cd-sulfide complex essential for metal tolerance, was found to harbor mutations in specific genes of the purine biosynthetic pathway. Genetic analysis of the link between metal complex...
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