Davide Degli Esposti, Auréline Lalouette, Karen Gaget, Louveline Lepeule, Zineb Chaabi, Maxime Leprêtre, Anabelle Espeyte, Nicolas Delorme, Hervé Quéau, Laura Garnero, Federica Calevro, Arnaud Chaumot, Olivier Geffard
Metal pollution is a major concern for aquatic environments. Widespread contamination by various trace metal ions has been described in freshwater streams as well as their subsequent bioaccumulation, potentially leading to toxicity and trophic transfer. Metallothioneins constitute an evolutionary conserved family of low molecular weight, cysteine-rich, metal-chelating proteins, whose known physiological functions are the maintenance of the homeostasis of essential metals, the detoxification of non-essential metals, and the protection against oxidative stress and free radicals...
October 10, 2023: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology