Metallothionein IV

by Klaassen, Curtis D.

• ISBN13: 9783764358303
• ISBN10: 3764358300
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: BIRKHAUSER BOSTON INC

Summary

The Proceedings of the Fourth International Metallothionein Meeting (M T-97) feature the latest research on metallothionein. The book covers a broad range of topics which provide important information for both b asic and clinical investigators. The selected 94 articles in this book are written by the leading scientists in the field around the world. This is an increasingly important, multi-disciplinary area of study th at has benefitted from recent advances in concepts and methodologies f rom other fields.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xv
Metallothionein nomenclature and structure
Nomenclature of metallothionein: Proposal for a revision	3	(4)
Yutaka Kojima
Pierre-Alain Binz
Jeremias H.R. Kagi
Metallothionein: Molecular evolution and classification	7	(8)
Pierre-Alain Binz
Jeremias H.R. Kagi
Structural and biological studies on native bovine Cu, Zn-metallothionein-3	15	(8)
Milan Vasak
Ralf Bogumil
Peter Faller
Daniel W. Hasler
Pierre-Alain Binz
Stefan Klauser
Arend Bruinink
John M. Charnock
C. David Garner
Circular Dichroism, emission, and exafs studies of Ag(I), Cd(II), Cu(I), and Hg(II) binding to metallothioneins and modeling the metal binding site	23	(14)
Martin J. Stillman
Anna Rae Green
Ziqi Gui
David Fowle
P. Anthony Presta
Metallothionein structure update	37	(8)
Gulin Oz
Dean L. Pountney
Ian M. Armitage
Simulation of Zn/Cd binding in mammalian metallothionein domains	45	(6)
C.C. Chang
P.C. Huang
The growth inhibitory activity of metallothionein-3 correlates with its novel β domain sequence rather than metal binding properties	51	(4)
Laran T. Jensen
Jay C. Erickson
Richard D. Palmiter
Dennis R. Winge
Recombinant synthesis and metal-binding abilities of mouse metallothionein 1 and its α- and β-domains	55	(8)
Silvia Atrian
Roger Bofill
Merce Capdevila
Neus Cols
Pilar Gonzalez-Duarte
Roser Gonzalez-Duarte
Angels Leiva
Oscar Palacios
Nuria Romero-Isart
Biochemical characterization of monomeric and dimeric cadmium-substituted metallothionein-3	63	(10)
Peep Palumaa
Rain Lehtme
Chemical and analytical aspects of metallothionein
Mammalian metallothionein sub-isoform separation by RP-HPLC with on-line UV and electrochemical detection	73	(12)
Guy Bordin
Fernando Cordeiro Raposo
Adela Rodriguez
Characterisation of mammalian Cd, Zn metallothioneins using differential pulse polarography	85	(8)
Adela Rosa Rodriguez
Comparison of CZE and MECC separations of MT isoforms	93	(6)
Vesa Virtanen
Guy Bordin
Synthetic peptides and domains of metallothionein for structure function studies: rabbit liver peptide MT-IIA 49-61 and lobster MT βN βC and βC→N domains	99	(12)
Amalia munoz
Frank Laib
Eugene DeRose
David H. Petering
John Ejnik
C. Frank Shaw III
Voltammetric methods in isolation and identification of plant metallothioneins from alga Chlorella	111	(6)
Ivana Sestakova
Pavel Mader
Hana Vodickova
Vira Pacakova
Characterization of isometallothineins in Chang liver cells and the transient accumulation of metallothionein and glutathione during cell proliferation	117	(8)
Annemarie Willi
Peter E. Hunziker
Quantification of cytosolic metallothionein contents by a developed assay system using immobilized antibody	125	(4)
Tomomi Nagashima
Masashi Okabe
Shigeru Saito
Masaaki Kurasaki
Toshitsugu Hirauchi
Shinzo Kimura
Tadashi Niioka
Protein engineering of metallothionein to study on the metal-binding ability	129	(8)
Masaaki Kurasaki
Futoshi Yamasaki
Rie Yamaguchi
Ana Rosa Linde Arias
Masashi Okabe
Tadasu Emoto
Fumitomo Odawara
Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki
Shigeru Saito
Yutaka Kojima
Metal binding proteins: Molecular engineering of improvements in metal specificity	137	(8)
Ian Watt
Peter Kille
Molecular splicing of metallothionein - study on domains of metallothionein	145	(12)
Yi Xiong
Yanjiao Zhou
Yiwu Chen
Binggen Ru
Metallothionein in non-mammalian tissues
Involvement of metallothionein in female squirrelfish reproduction	157	(10)
E.D. Thompson
P.-E. Olsson
G.D. Mayer
C. Haux
P. Walsh
C. Hogstrand
Accumulation of untranslated metallothionein mRNA in antarctic hemoglobinless fish (icefish)	167	(6)
Vincenzo Carginale
Rosaria Scudiero
Antonio Capasso
Clemente Capasso
Gianluca Passaretti
Guido di Prisco
Peter Kille
Elio Parisi
Structure and function of metallothionein isoforms in terrestrial snails	173	(6)
Reinhard Dallinger
Burkhard Berger
Peter Hunziker
Jeremias H.R. Kagi
Functional and regulatory aspects of teleost metallothionein	179	(8)
P.-E. Olsson
M. Gerpe
P. Kling
Metallothionein induction in mussels exposed to a metal mixture	187	(8)
M.J. Bebianno
W.J. Langston
Synthesis and properties of class III metallothioneins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe in response to cadmium and zinc	195	(6)
Mary M. Lauro
Donald J. Plocke
Phytochelatins (class III metallothioneins) and their desglycyl peptides induced by cadmium in root cultures of Rubia tinctorum L.	201	(6)
Tamio Maitani
Hiroki Kubota
Kyoko Sato
Takashi Yamada
Chemical and spectroscopic properties of copper metallothionein from the copper resistant fungus Beauveria bassiana	207	(8)
Satomi Kameo
Peter Faller
Milan Vasak
Yutaka Kojima
Transcription factors
Metallothionein facts and frustrations	215	(8)
Richard D. Palmiter
Liver degeneration and embryonic lethality in mouse null mutants for the metal-responsive transcriptional activator MTF-1	223	(4)
Cagatay Gunes
Rainer Heuchel
Oleg Georgiev
Karl-Heinz Muller
Silvia Marino
Adriano Aguzzi
Horst Bluthmann
Walter Schaffner
New insights into the mechanisms of cadmium regulation of mouse metallothionein I gene expression	227	(6)
G.K. Andrews
D. Bittel
T. Dalton
N. Hu
W. Chu
M. Daggett
Q. Li
J. Johnson
Activation of mouse metallothionein I promoter by cadmium in human neuroblastoma cells	233	(4)
Jeffrey A. Johnson
Jeffrey D. Moehlenkamp
Waihei Chu
Douglas Bittel
Glen K. Andrews
Transcription factors involved in heavy metal regulation of the human metallothionein-IIA gene	237	(6)
Shinji Koizumi
Yasumitsu Ogra
Kaoru Suzuki
Fuminori Otsuka
Transcriptional regulation of the gene encoding mouse metallothionein-3 and its expression in the organs of the reproductive system	243	(8)
Pierre Moffatt
Raffaella Faraonio
Olivier LaRochelle
Isabelle Delisle
Rene Saint-Arnaud
and Carl Seguin
Dynamic regulation of yeast metallothionein gene transcription via metalloregulatory signaling factors	251	(2)
D.J. Thiele
M.M.O. Pena
K.A. Koch
Metal regulation of mammalian metal responsive element (MRE) binding proteins	253	(8)
L. Gedamu
S.L.-A. Samson
S. Schieman
W. Paramchuk
Metallothionein and hormone responsiveness	261	(6)
James Koropatnick
Janice M. DeMoor
Olga M. Collins
Synergistic activation of mouse metallothionein-I gene by interleukin-6 and glucocorticoid	267	(6)
Norio Itoh
Keiko Kasutani
Masako Kanekiyo
Tomoki Kimura
Norio Muto
Keiichi Tanaka
Hammerhead ribozymes mediated down-regulation of rat metallothionein mrnas expression	273	(8)
Kai-Fai Lee
Shuk-Mei Ho
Inactivation of metal-induced metallothionein gene expression by protein kinase C inhibitor	281	(6)
Je-Hsin Chen
Chih-Wen Yu
Lih-Yuan Lin
Cadmium-induced metallothionein expression and metallothionein mRNA in mice	287	(4)
Keiji Suzuki
Kyoumi Nakazato
Katsuyuki Nakajima
Role of metallothionein in reproduction, development and cell proliferation
The nuclear-cytoplasmic presence of metallothionein in cells during differentiation and development	291	(4)
M. George Cherian
John C. Lau
Margarita D. Apostolova
Lu Cai
Metallothionein and male genital organs	295	(6)
Chiharu Tohyama
Junko S. Suzuki
Hisao Nishimura
Noriko Nishimura
Induction of metallothionein-like cadmium binding protein in testis and its protective role against cadmium toxicity	301	(8)
H. Ohta
H. Tanaka
S. Asami
Y. Seki
H. Yoshikawa
Zinc homeostasis during pregnancy in metallothionein-null mice on a low zinc diet	309	(6)
A.M. Rofe
J.C. Philcox
M. Sturkenboom
P. Coyle
Restriction of cadmium transfer to egg from laying hen exposed to cadmium: Involvement of metallothionein in the ovaries	315	(6)
Shin Sato
Masashi Okabe
Tadasu Emoto
Masaaki Kurasaki
Yutaka Kojima
Metallothionein expression during wool follicle development in foetal sheep	321	(4)
Hisao Nishimura
Noriko Nishimura
Chiharu Tohyama
Graham R. Cam
David L. Adelson
A role of hepatic metallothionein on mercury distribution in fetal guinea pigs after in utero exposure to mercury vapor	325	(8)
Minoru Yoshida
Hiroshi Satoh
Yawara Sumi
Cell differentiation alters metallothionein expression in avian growth plate chondrocytes	333	(8)
Glenn R. Sauer
Licia N. Y. Wu
Daotai Nie
Roy E. Wuthier
Metallothionein in brain disease
Metallothionein in oxidate stress of Parkinson's disease	341	(10)
Manuchair Ebadi
Midori Hiramatsu
M.V. Ramana Kumari
Ruyi Hao
Ronald F. Pfeiffer
Metallothionein-1,2 and heme oxygenase-1 are expressed in damaged brain regions following chemically-induced seizures	351	(8)
Mitchell R. Emerson
Robert S. Cross
Shaohua Jin
Fred E. Samson
Thomas L. Pazdernik
Molecular cloning and expression of the metallothionein (MT)-I and MT-III in brain lesions of dogs	359	(4)
Akinori Shimada
Seiji Kojima
Takashi Uemura
Yoshiaki Yamano
Kinji Kobayashi
Takehito Morita
Takashi Umemura
Liver and brain metallothionein regulation in transgenic mice overexpressing interleukin-6 and in mice carrying a null mutation in the interleukin-6 gene	363	(8)
Juan Hidalgo
Javier Carrasco
Joaquin Hernandez
Mercedes Giralt
Amalia Molinero
Berta Gonzalez
Horst Bluethmann
Iain L. Campbell
Effects of capsaicin on metallothionein (MT) mRNA in sensory neurons: Possible role of MT-III in nociception	371	(6)
Yongjiu Cai
Ruben A. Velazquez
Alice A. Larson
Metallothionein expression in the mammalian brain	377	(6)
Adrian K. West
Adele F. Holloway
Fiona A. Stennard
Janine M. Miller
Induction of metallothionein-I (MT-I) mRNA in primary astrocyte cultures is mediated by hypotonicity	383	(6)
M. Aschner
and D.R Conklin
Metallothionein in the cerebral cortex of rats showing hereditary high ability in sidman avoidance test	389	(8)
H. Aikawa
T. Yoshida
H. Ohta
Y. Seki
Role of metallothionein in copper metabolism, diabetes and autoimmune disease
Roles of metallothionein in the cytotoxicity of copper in the liver of LEC rats	397	(6)
Kazuo T. Suzuki
Ming Rui
Jun-ichi Ueda
Toshihiko Ozawa
Fate of copper and metallothionein in the liver of LEC rats	403	(10)
Dominik Klein
Josef Lichtmannegger
Ulrich Heinzmann
Josef Muller-Hocker
Karl H. Summer
Relationship between Cu metabolism hereditary disorders and distribution of Cu-metallothionein in kidneys	413	(8)
Masashi Okabe
Shigeru Saito
Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki
Takeshi Saito
Akira Hata
Fumio Endo
Koji Nagano
Ken-ichi Urakami
Ichiro Matsuda
Masaaki Kurasaki
Zincsulphate protects from streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus in mice: a function of metallothionein?	421	(8)
Patricia Ohly
Zhiyong Wang
Claudia Dohle
Josef Abel
Helga Gleichmann
MT does not protect endocrine cell damage induced by alloxan in pancreas of mice	429	(4)
Takeshi Minami
Hidenori Tanaka
Yuko Okazaki
Setsuko Tohno
Yoshiyuki Tohno
Plasma MT levels in diabetic and renal failure patients	433	(4)
Takeshi Minami
Setsuko Tohno
Yoshiyuki Tohno
Noriko Otaki
Masami Kimura
M. George Cherian
Metallothionein-mediated alterations in autoimmune disease processes	437	(8)
M.A. Lynes
C.A. Richardson
R. McCabe
K.C. Crowthers
J.C. Lee
J. Youn
I.B. Schweitzer
L.D. Shultz
Dietary zinc, Photoimmunosuppression and metallothionein (MT)	445	(8)
Vivienne E. Reeve
Noriko Nishimura
Meira Bosnic
Andy K. H. Choo
Anna E. Michalska
Role of metallothionein in Cd-induced nephrotoxicity and bone loss
Metallothionein-null mice are susceptible to chronic CdCl2-induced nephropathy: Cd-induced renal injury is not necessarily mediated by CdMT	453	(6)
Curtis D. Klaassen
Jie Liu
Yaping Liu
Sultan S. Habeebu
Cellular metallothionein: Properties of apometallothionein and the comparative toxicity of Cd2+ and Cd-metallothionein	459	(8)
David H. Petering
Munira Dughish
Meilin Huang
Susan Krezoski
Sara Krull
Donna Lewand
Amalia Munoz
Lifen Ren
Sudha Venkatesh
Samuel Blumenthal
C. Frank Shaw III
Zinc-induced protection against cadmium-metallothionein nephrotoxicity depends on glutathione status	467	(4)
Zahir A. Shaikh
Weifeng Tang
Selma Sadovic
Mechanism of improved cadmium-induced renal dysfunction after cessation of cadmium exposure	471	(2)
Kazuo Nomiyama
Hiroko Nomiyama
Naoki Kameda
The role of metallothionein in cadmium-induced bone resorption	473	(4)
Maryka H. Bhattacharyya
Carmen A. Blum
Allison K. Wilson
Metallothionein induction in human proximal tubular cell cultures-lack of protection against heavy metal toxicity	477	(8)
Adrian T. Miles
Vicente Rodilla
Antony G. Breen
John Beattie
William Jenner
Gabrielle M. Hawksworth
Relationship of metallothionein to cadmium and to zinc in human liver and kidney	485	(4)
Arata Teranishi
Ruriko Ninomiya
Naoko Koizumi
Apoptosis of human kidney 293 cells is promoted by polymerized Cd-metallothionein	489	(10)
Tetsuo Hamada
Akihide Tanimoto
Takakazu Sasaguri
Nobuyuki Arima
Shohei Shimajiri
Ryuji Nakano
Yasuyuki Sasaguri
Role of metallothionein in oxidative stress
Subcellular localization mediated functioning of metallothionein: Protection against oxygen radicals and anticancer agents	499	(6)
Elizabeth S. Woo
Bruce R. Pitt
John S. Lazo
Obesity and hyperleptinemia in a colony of metallothionein (-I and -II) null mice	505	(6)
John H. Beattie
Anne M. Wood
April M. Newman
Ian Bremner
K.H.
Anna E. Michalska
Jackie S. Duncan
Paul Trayhurn
Cardiac protection by metallothionein against ischemia-reperfusion injury and its possible relation to ischemic preconditioning	511	(6)
Y. James Kang
Ju-Feng Wang
Metallothionein and its importance relative to glutathione in cardiac protection against doxorubicin toxicity	517	(6)
Guang-Wu Wang
Hui-Yun Wu
Y. James Kang
Metallothionein metal composition is a determinant of its induction of the mitochondrial permeability transition	523	(6)
Cuthbert O. Simpkins
Tracy Lloyd
Sai Li
Samuel C. Balderman
Protective effect of metallothionein on DNA damage induced by hydrogen peroxide and ferric ion-nitrilotriacetic acid	529	(6)
Kyong-Son Min
Kayo Nishida
Yukiko Nakahara
Satomi Onosaka
Effect of metallothionein on cardiac reperfusion injury in rats	535	(6)
Seiki Minamide
Masashi Okamoto
Fumio Naganuma
Katsuyuki Nakajima
Tadashi Suzuki
Susceptibility to metals and radical-inducing chemicals of metallothionein-null mice	541	(6)
Masahiko Satoh
Chiharu Tohyama
Metallothionein-I/II knockout mice are sensitive to acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity	547	(6)
Jie Liu
Yaping Liu
Curtis D. Klaassen
Stacey E. Shehin-Johnson
Angela Lucas
Steven D. Cohen
Effect of oxidative stress and bioavailable zinc on metallothionein in cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE)	553	(8)
David J. Tate Jr.
Michael V. Miceli
David A. Newsome
Specific binding sites of metallothionein on endothelium of small vessels in myocardium	561	(8)
Shi Cheng
Ge Shujun
Zhong Chongxia
He Qihua
Hou Lin
Metallothionein and carcinogenesis
Further studies on the role of metallothionein in the antitumor effects of cadmium	569	(4)
Michael P. Waalkes
Takeaki Nagamine
Hideaki Shimada
Bhalchandra A. Diwan
Timothy P. Coogan
Noriyuki Shiraishi
M. George Cherian
Robert A. Goyer
Effects of metallothionein expression on development of drug resistance	573	(4)
Toby G. Rossman
Ekaterina I. Goncharova
A chemical mechanism for inactivation of anticancer drugs by metallothionein Catherine Fenselau	577	(4)
Miquel D. Antoine
Daniele Fabris
Yetrib Hathout
Tao He
Joseph Zaia
The possible role of metallothionein in cancer therapy by copper acetate	581	(4)
Qing Huai
Xingwang Fang
Jilan Wu
Wenquing Wang
Guojian Huang
Shu Zhou
Interaction of metallothionein with the carcinogenic metals Ni(II), Cr(VI) and As(III)	585	(10)
Dean E. Wilcox
Laura L. Bennett
Elizabeth H. Cox
George Haleblian
Brian T. Hill Eric P. Kowack
Xiaoyan Liu
Jane S. Merkel
Amy E. Palmer
Matthew C. Posewitz
Joann E. Roy
karen E. Wetterhahn
A novel metallothionein gene therapy approach for chemo-and radio-protection Tupur Husain	595	(6)
Asim B. Abdel-Mageed
Alan M. Miller
Laura S. Levy
Krishna C. Agrawal
Metallothionein immunostaining as a prognostic indicator in canine mammary tumours	601	(6)
I. Carmen Fuentealba
Julia E. Mullins
Metallothionein isoform gene expression in four human bladder cancer cell lines	607	(6)
Scott H. Garrett
Seema Somji
John H. Todd
Donald A. Sens
Donald L. Lamm
Mary Ann Sens
The suppression of metallothionein synthesis inhibits the growth of leukemia P388 cells	613	(8)
Atsushi Takeda
Harumi Hisada
Shoji Okada
John E. Mata
Patric L. Iversen
Manuchair Ebadi
Metallothioneins as biomarkers
Identification and characterisation of metallothioneins from environmental indicator species as potential biomonitors	621	(8)
Ceri A. Morris
Stephen Sturzenbaum
Beate Nicolaus
A. John Morgan
John L. Harwood
Peter Kille
Assessment of metal exposure of marine edible mussels by means of a biomarker	629	(4)
Biserka Raspor
Jasenka Pavicic
Sonja Kozar
Zelijko Kwokal
Marina Paic
Niksa Odzak
Irena Ujevic
Zorana Kljakovic
Metallothionein level estimation in the bioassay method for water quality assessment in freshwater reservoirs polluted by waste waters	633	(8)
Dasha A. Avramova
Boris I. Synsynys
Valentina A. Romantsova
Gennady M. Rott
Subject index	641