Metallothionein
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25. Metallothionein messenger RNA regulation in the mottled mouse and Menkes kinky hair syndrome.
Menkes kinky hair syndrome is an X-linked neurodegenerative disorder, causing tissue-specific increases in copper and metallothionein content. A mouse model is provided by hemizygotes for mutant alleles at the X-linked mottled locus. Herein we test the possibility that the primary defect in both species is in metallothionein gene regulation. We show that met
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26. Prognostic evaluation of metallothionein expression in human colorectal neoplasms.
AIM: To investigate the role of metallothionein in colorectal tumours and the possible relation with other factors associated with tumour progression: expression of cathepsin D (CD), CD44, p53, Rb, bcl-2, c-erbB-2, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), proliferation indices (Ki-67, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)), and conventional clinicopathol
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27. Regulation of a metallothionein-growth hormone hybrid gene in bovine papilloma virus.
We have constructed bovine papilloma virus recombinants carrying a hybrid gene in which human growth hormone structural sequences are fused to the promoter and presumptive control region of the mouse metallothionein-I gene. Mouse cells transformed with the recombinants synthesize metallothionein-growth hormone hybrid mRNA with the same 5' end as metallothion
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28. Isolation and characterization of the mouse metallothionein-I gene.
Double-stranded cDNA was synthesized from a mouse liver mRNA fraction enriched for metallothionein mRNA activity, ligated to restriction site linkers, inserted into pBR322, and used to transform Escherichia coli chi 1776. The sequence of the largest plasmid containing DNA that hybridized to metallothionein mRNA was determined and shown to contain a 380-base-
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29. Immunochemical detection of metallothionein in specific epithelial cells of rat organs.
The distribution of a heavy metal binding protein, metallothionein, was studied immunocytochemically by using antimetallothionein antibody and the immunoperoxidase staining technique on histological sections of liver, kidney, intestine, lung, and testis from cadmium-treated rats. These tissues either accumulate heavy metals (e.g., liver, kidney, and testis)
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30. Human metallothionein genes: molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the mRNA.
From a cDNA clone bank prepared from cadmium-treated HeLa cells, we isolated clones representing mRNAs whose concentration is increased after cadmium induction. Several metallothionein cDNA clones were isolated by cross-hybridization to mouse metallothionein-I cDNA. The nucleotide sequence of one of these clones, containing a nearly full-length cDNA copy of
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31. Erythrocyte metallothionein as an index of zinc status in humans.
Metallothionein concentrations in erythrocyte lysates derived from human subjects were measured by an ELISA procedure. IgG obtained from serum of sheep injected with human metallothionein 1 was used in this competitive assay. Subjects were fed a semipurified zinc-deficient diet (0.7 mg of zinc per kg of diet) for an 8-day depletion period after 3 days of acc
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32. Amplification of the metallothionein-I gene in cadmium-resistant mouse cells.
Friend leukemia cells resistant to cadmium toxicity were selected. More than 70% of total cysteine incorporation in these cells was into the metal-binding protein, metallothionein. We used cDNA and genomic DNA clones containing the metallothionein-I gene to measure the concentration of its mRNA, the rate of gene transcription, and the number of genes. On a p
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33. Induction of metallothionein-I mRNA in cultured cells by heavy metals and iodoacetate: evidence for gratuitous inducers.
A mouse hepatocyte cell line selected for growth in 80 microM CdSO4 (Cdr80 cells) was used to test the role of metallothioneins in heavy metal detoxification. The cadmium-resistant (Cdr80) cells have double minute chromosomes carrying amplified copies of the metallothionein-I gene and accumulate ca. 20-fold more metallothionein-I mRNA than unselected cadmium
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34. Role of heat shock transcription factor in yeast metallothionein gene expression.
The induction of Saccharomyces cerevisiae metallothionein gene transcription by Cu and Ag is mediated by the ACE1 transcription factor. In an effort to detect additional stimuli and factors that regulate metallothionein gene transcription, we isolated a Cu-resistant suppressor mutant of an ACE1 deletion strain. Even in the absence of metals, the suppressor m
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35. Characterization and use of the Drosophila metallothionein promoter in cultured Drosophila melanogaster cells.
The promoter from the metallothionein gene may be a useful conditional promoter for the construction of chimeric genes to be expressed in Drosophila cells in culture. To explore this possibility the responses of the endogenous metallothionein gene and an in vitro constructed chimeric gene containing the metallothionein promoter were examined. Copper and cadm
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36. Interleukin 6 regulates metallothionein gene expression and zinc metabolism in hepatocyte monolayer cultures.
Attention has focused on the cytokine interleukin 6 (IL-6) as a major mediator of acute-phase protein synthesis in hepatocytes in response to infection and tissue injury. We have evaluated the effects of IL-6 and IL-1 alpha as well as extracellular zinc and glucocorticoid hormone on metallothionein gene expression and cellular zinc accumulation in rat hepato