Small Metallothionein MT-10 Genes in Coastal and Hydrothermal Mussels
| Autor: | Marc Laulier, Vincent Leignel, Yann Hardivillier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Molecular Sequence Data Zoology Environment Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Open Reading Frames Species Specificity Common species Escherichia coli Animals Cluster Analysis Metallothionein Bathymodiolus thermophilus Gene Phylogeny DNA Primers Pacific Ocean Base Sequence biology Ecology fungi Sequence Analysis DNA Mussel biology.organism_classification Mytilus Open reading frame Mytilidae France Sequence Alignment |
| Zdroj: | Marine Biotechnology. 7:236-244 |
| ISSN: | 1436-2236 1436-2228 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10126-004-0135-8 |
| Popis: | Metallothioneins (MTs) are important proteins in the intracellular regulation of metals. In the Mytilidae family, which includes many economically important species, 2 major forms of MTs have been reported: MT-10 (10 kDa) and MT-20 (20 kDa). Many different MT-10 proteins have been isolated from the common species Mytilus edulis, which suggests that distinct MT-10 genes may occur in a single specimen. Some MT genes, involving 3 exons and 2 large introns, have been isolated in Mytilidae. Our aim was to determine whether intron-free forms of the MT-10 genes can exist, which could allow rapid transcription in response to exposure to metals. Our study focused on 2 species living under very different environmental conditions: Mytilus edulis (a coastal mussel) and Bathymodiolus thermophilus (a hydrothermal mussel). We report here the first description of small, intron-free MT-10 genes, possessing a correct open reading frame in these 2 species. |
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