Structural aspects of Metallothioneins

useful literature references




Books

Out of the four International Metallothionein Meetings organized up to now three proceedings have been published. They belong to the library of each MT scientist. These are:

  • Metallothionein, Experientia Suppl. 34 (1979) ed. by Jeremias H.R. Kägi & Monica Nordberg, Birkhäuser Verlag
  • Metallothionein II, Experientia Suppl. 52 (1987) ed. by Jeremias H.R. Kägi & Yutaka Kojima, Birkhäuser Verlag
  • Metallothionein III; Biological roles and medical implications (1993) ed. by K.T. Suzuki, N. Imura & M. Kimura, Birkhäuser Verlag
  • Metallothionein IV (1999) C. Klaassen (ed.), Birkhäuser Verlag Basel (contains the extended abstracts presented at the Fourth International Metallothionein Meeting, Kansas City (MO), 17th.-20th. September 1997)

    Additional rich sources of information are to be found in:

  • Metallothionein; Synthesis, structure and properties of metallothioneins, phytochelatins and metal-thiolate complexes (1991) ed. by Martin J. Stillman, C. Frank Shaw III & Kazuo T. Suzuki, VHC Publishers, Inc.

  • Metallobiochemistry Part B: Metallothionein and related molecules (1991) Methods in enzymology 205, ed. by James F. Riordan & Bert L. Vallee, Academic Press, Inc.


    Reviews and articles

    Here is a list of reviews and articles tracing structural aspects of metallothioneins.

  • W. Braun, M. Vasak. A.H. Robbins, C.D. Stout, G. Wagner,J.H.R. Kägi and K. Wüthrich (1992) Comparison of the NMR solution structure and the x-ray crystal structure of rat metallothionein-2, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 89(21) , 10124-10128. Medline

  • J.H.R. Kägi and A. Schäffer (1988) Biochemistry of metallothionein, Biochemistry 27, 8509-8515. Medline

  • S.S Narula, M. Brouwer, Y. Hua and I.M. Armitage (1995) Three-dimensional solution structure of Callinectes sapidus metallothionein-1 determined by homonuclear and heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Biochemistry 34(2),620-31. Medline

  • J.D. Otvos, D.H. Petering and C.F. Shaw III (1989) Comments in Inorganic Chemistry 9, 1-

  • M.J. Stillman (1995) Coordination Chemistry Reviews 144, 461-511

  • M. Vasak and J.H.R. Kägi (1983) Spectroscopic properties of metallothionein, in Metal Ions in Biological Systems, Vol. 15, Helmut Siegel ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, 213-273

  • M. Vasak and J.H.R. Kägi (1994) Metallothioneins, in Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 4, R. Bruce King ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2229-2241

  • M. Vasak and R. Bogumil (1997) Diversity of cluster structures in mammalian metallothionein: Interplay between metal ions and polypeptide chain, in Cytotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic potential of heavy metals related to human environment, NATO ASI series II, ed. by D.D. Hadjiladis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 195-215

  • D.R. Winge, C.T. Dameron and G.N. George (1994) The metallothionein structural motif in gene expression, Advances in Inorganic Biochemistry 10, 1-48. Medline


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