Metallothionein 2A
Metallothionein-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MT2A gene.[1][2]
References
References
- ↑ Karin M, Richards RI (Dec 1982). “Human metallothionein genes–primary structure of the metallothionein-II gene and a related processed gene”. Nature. 299 (5886): 797–802. Bibcode:1982Natur.299..797K. doi:10.1038/299797a0. PMID 7133118.
- ↑ “Entrez Gene: MT2A metallothionein 2A”.
- ↑ Rao, Prema S; Jaggi Meena; Smith David J; Hemstreet George P; Balaji K C (Oct 2003). “Metallothionein 2A interacts with the kinase domain of PKCmu in prostate cancer”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. United States. 310 (3): 1032–8. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.09.118. ISSN 0006-291X. PMID 14550308.
Further reading
Further reading
- Kissling MM, Kägi HR (1977). “Primary structure of human hepatic metallothionein”. FEBS Lett. 82 (2): 247–50. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(77)80594-2. PMID 913597.
- Yamazaki S, Nakanishi M, Hamamoto T, et al. (1993). “Expression of human metallothionein-II fusion protein in Escherichia coli”. Biochem. Int. 28 (3): 451–60. PMID 1339282.
- Messerle BA, Schäffer A, Vasák M, et al. (1992). “Comparison of the solution conformations of human [Zn7]-metallothionein-2 and [Cd7]-metallothionein-2 using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy”. J. Mol. Biol. 225 (2): 433–43. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(92)90930-I. PMID 1593628.
- Zafarullah M, Martel-Pelletier J, Cloutier JM, et al. (1992). “Expression of c-fos, c-jun, jun-B, metallothionein and metalloproteinase genes in human chondrocyte”. FEBS Lett. 306 (2–3): 169–72. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(92)80992-P. PMID 1633872.
- Messerle BA, Schäffer A, Vasák M, et al. (1990). “Three-dimensional structure of human [113Cd7]metallothionein-2 in solution determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy”. J. Mol. Biol. 214 (3): 765–79. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(90)90291-S. PMID 2388267.
- Duguid JR, Bohmont CW, Liu NG, Tourtellotte WW (1989). “Changes in brain gene expression shared by scrapie and Alzheimer disease”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86 (18): 7260–4. Bibcode:1989PNAS…86.7260D. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.18.7260. PMC 298037. PMID 2780570.
- Karin M, Haslinger A, Heguy A, et al. (1987). “Metal-responsive elements act as positive modulators of human metallothionein-IIA enhancer activity”. Mol. Cell. Biol. 7 (2): 606–13. PMC 365115. PMID 3821726.
- Karin M, Haslinger A, Holtgreve H, et al. (1984). “Characterization of DNA sequences through which cadmium and glucocorticoid hormones induce human metallothionein-IIA gene”. Nature. 308 (5959): 513–9. Bibcode:1984Natur.308..513K. doi:10.1038/308513a0. PMID 6323998.
- Schmidt CJ, Hamer DH, McBride OW (1984). “Chromosomal location of human metallothionein genes: implications for Menkes’ disease”. Science. 224 (4653): 1104–6. Bibcode:1984Sci…224.1104S. doi:10.1126/science.6719135. PMID 6719135.
- Karin M, Richards RI (1982). “Human metallothionein genes: molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the mRNA”. Nucleic Acids Res. 10 (10): 3165–73. doi:10.1093/nar/10.10.3165. PMC 320698. PMID 6896577.
- Lambert E, Kille P, Swaminathan R (1996). “Cloning and sequencing a novel metallothionein I isoform expressed in human reticulocytes”. FEBS Lett. 389 (2): 210–2. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(96)00587-X. PMID 8766831.
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- Ebert MP, Günther T, Hoffmann J, et al. (2000). “Expression of metallothionein II in intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and gastric cancer”. Cancer Res. 60 (7): 1995–2001. PMID 10766190.
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- Sun X, Kang YJ (2002). “Prior increase in metallothionein levels is required to prevent doxorubicin cardiotoxicity”. Exp. Biol. Med. (Maywood). 227 (8): 652–7. PMID 12192109.
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