Histidine Protects Against Zinc and Nickel Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Histidine Protects Against Zinc and Nickel Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Zinc is an essential trace element involved in a wide range of biological processes and human diseases. Zinc excess is deleterious, and animals require mechanisms to protect against zinc toxicity. To identify genes that modulate zinc tolerance, we performed a forward genetic screen for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants that were resistant to zinc toxicity. Here we demonstrate that mutations of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Genetics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002013