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SUBMITTER: Kim YY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2414300 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Yu-Young YY Kim Do-Young DY Shim Donghwan D Song Won-Yong WY Lee Joohyun J Schroeder Julian I JI Kim Sanguk S Moran Nava N Lee Youngsook Y
The Journal of biological chemistry 20080414 23
Cadmium causes the generation of reactive oxygen species, which in turn causes cell damage. We isolated a novel gene from a wheat root cDNA library, which conferred Cd(II)-specific tolerance when expressed in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). The gene, which we called TaTM20, for Triticum aestivum transmembrane 20, encodes a putative hydrophobic polypeptide of 889 amino acids, containing 20 transmembrane domains arranged as a 5-fold internal repeating unit of 4 transmembrane domains each. Expres ...[more]