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Protein synthesis in cadmium- and pentachlorophenol-tolerant Euglena gracilis
J P Barque1, A Abahamid, Y Bourezgui
1Laboratoire de Métabolisme Cellulaire et Xénobiotiques, Faculté de Pharmacie, Chatenay-Malabry Cedex, France.
Environmental Research
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
This work is a preliminary characterization of two adapted Euglena gracilis cell lines, one to cadmium and the other to pentachlorophenol. Growth curve analyses indicate that tolerance to one pollutant did not protect against the second pollutant. These suggest that metabolic pathways that are induced by one pollutant are specific for this pollutant. This specificity is detectable at the level of gene expression.
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