Article
Functional homologs of fungal metallothionein genes from Arabidopsis.
The Plant cell - 1 Jun 1994
Zhou J, Goldsbrough P B
Abstract excerpt
Metallothioneins (MTs) are cysteine-rich proteins required for heavy metal tolerance in animals and fungi. Two cDNAs encoding proteins with homology to animal and fungal MTs have been isolated from Arabidopsis. The genes represented by these cDNAs are referred to as MT1 and MT2. When expressed in an MT-deficient (cup1 delta) mutant of yeast, both MT1 and MT2 complemented the cup1 delta mutation, providing a high...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Complementary
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes, Fungal
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Metallothionein
- Metals
- Molecular Sequence Data