Anchoring plant metallothioneins to the inner face of the plasma membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells leads to heavy metal accumulation

• Lavinia Liliana Ruta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Liliana Ruta, Ya-Fen Lin

  Affiliation Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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• Ya-Fen Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Liliana Ruta, Ya-Fen Lin

  Current address: Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

  Affiliation Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Ralph Kissen,

  Affiliation Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Ioana Nicolau,

  Affiliation Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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• Aurora Daniela Neagoe,

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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• Simona Ghenea,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

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• Atle M. Bones,

  Affiliation Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Ileana Cornelia Farcasanu

  * E-mail: ileana.farcasanu@chimie.unibuc.ro

  Affiliation Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4901-7896

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