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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2017

Metallothionein from Wild Populations of the African Catfish Clarias gariepinus: From Sequence, Protein Expression and Metal Binding Properties to Transcriptional Biomarker of Metal Pollution.

Ethel M'kandawire, Agnieszka Mierek-Adamska, Stephen R Stürzenbaum, Kennedy Choongo, John Yabe, Maxwell Mwase, Ngonda Saasa, Claudia A Blindauer

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Synthetic fish metallothionein design as a potential tool for monitoring toxic metals in water.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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  8. AgAnalytical chemistry · 2020
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  10. Differential reactivity of closely related zinc(II)-binding metallothioneins from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Ethel M'kandawireDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. ethel.mkandawire@unza.zm.
Agnieszka Mierek-AdamskaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. mierek_adamska@umk.pl.
Stephen R StürzenbaumAnalytical and Environmental Sciences Division, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London SE1 9NH, UK. stephen.sturzenbaum@kcl.ac.uk.
Kennedy ChoongoSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 32379, Lusaka 10101, Zambia. k.choongo@unza.zm.
John YabeSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 32379, Lusaka 10101, Zambia. mjyabe@yahoo.co.uk.
Maxwell MwaseSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 32379, Lusaka 10101, Zambia. mmwase@yahoo.com.
Ngonda SaasaSchool of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 32379, Lusaka 10101, Zambia. nsaasa@gmail.com.
Claudia A BlindauerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. c.blindauer@warwick.ac.uk.
University of Zambia · ZMUniversity of Warwick · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic pollution with heavy metals is an on-going concern throughout the world, and methods to monitor release and impact of heavy metals are of high importance. With a view to probe its suitability as molecular biomarker of metal pollution, this study has determined a coding sequence for metallothionein of the African sharptooth catfish

Indexed as

Transcription, GeneticWater PollutionAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceBiomarkersCatfishesDNA, ComplementaryEnvironmental MonitoringGene Expression RegulationGeographyLiverMetallothioneinMetals, HeavyModels, MolecularRecombinant ProteinsBiomarkersDNA, ComplementaryMetallothioneinMetals, HeavyRecombinant ProteinsRNA, MessengerbiomarkerClarias gariepinusheavy metalsKafue RiverlivermetallothioneinMT gene expressiontoxicogenomics

Identifiers

PMID28718783
PMCPMC5536036
OpenAlexW2737653355

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