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Natural and laboratory mutations in kuzbanian are associated with zinc stress phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster.
Scientific reports - 20 Feb 2017
Le Manh Hung, Guio Lain, Merenciano Miriam, Rovira Quirze, Barrón Maite G, González Josefa
Abstract excerpt
Organisms must cope with altered environmental conditions such as high concentrations of heavy metals. Stress response to heavy metals is mediated by the metal-responsive transcription factor 1 (MTF-1), which is conserved from Drosophila to humans. MTF-1 binds to metal response elements (MREs) and changes the expression of target genes. kuzbanian (kuz), a metalloendopeptidase that activates the evolutionary...
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