Tetrahymena Metallothioneins Fall into Two Discrete Subfamilies

Silvia Díaz; Francisco Amaro; Daniel Rico; Virginia Campos; Laura Benítez; Ana Martín-González; Eileen P. Hamilton; Eduardo Orias; Juan C. Gutiérrez

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000291

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Tetrahymena Metallothioneins Fall into Two Discrete Subfamilies

Silvia Díaz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Díaz, Francisco Amaro, Daniel Rico

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Francisco Amaro ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Díaz, Francisco Amaro, Daniel Rico

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Daniel Rico ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Díaz, Francisco Amaro, Daniel Rico

Current address: Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Virginia Campos,

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Laura Benítez,

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Ana Martín-González,

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Eileen P. Hamilton ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
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Eduardo Orias,

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
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Juan C. Gutiérrez

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología-III, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense (UCM), Spain
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Tetrahymena Metallothioneins Fall into Two Discrete Subfamilies

Silvia Díaz,
Francisco Amaro,
Daniel Rico,
Virginia Campos,
Laura Benítez,
Ana Martín-González,
Eileen P. Hamilton,
Eduardo Orias,
Juan C. Gutiérrez

Published: March 14, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000291

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