Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Metal-binding protein in the Pacific Oyster,Crassostrea gigas: Assessment of the protein as a biochemical environmental indicator

  • Published:
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bauer EL (1971) A statistical manual for chemists, 2nd ed. Academic Press New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis DV, Gee P, Cross S (1981) Recovery from zinc contamination in a stock of Pacific oysters. Water Poll Res J Canada 15: 303–310

    Google Scholar 

  • Frazier JM (1976) The dynamics of metals in the American oyster,C. virginica. II. Environmental effects. Chesapeake Sci 17:188–197

    Google Scholar 

  • Frazier JM, George SG (1983) Cadmium kinetics in oysters — a comparative study ofCrassostrea gigas andOstrea edulis.. Mar Biol 76:55–61

    Google Scholar 

  • Huggett RJ, Cross FA, Bender ME (1975) Distribution of copper and zinc in oysters and sediments from three coastal-plain estuaries. ERDA Symp Ser 36:224–238

    Google Scholar 

  • Lobel PB, Payne JF (1984) An evaluation of mercury-203 for assessing the induction of metallothionein-like proteins in mussels exposed to cadmium. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 33: 144–152

    Google Scholar 

  • McCarter JA, Roch M (1985) Hepatic metallothionein and resistance to copper in juvenile coho salmon. Comp Biochem Physiol 74c: 133–137

    Google Scholar 

  • Olafson RW, Sim RG (1979) An electrochemical approach to quantification and characterization of metallothioneins. Anal Biochem 100:343–351

    Google Scholar 

  • Olafson RW, Sim RG, Boto KG (1979) Isolation and chemical characterization of the heavy metal-binding protein metallothionein from marine invertebrates. Comp Biochem Physiol 62B:406–416

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomas DG, del G Solbe JR, Kay J Cryer A (1983) Environmental cadmium is not sequestered by metallothionein in rainbow trout. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 110: 584–592

    Google Scholar 

  • Thompson JAJ, Cosson RP (1984) An improved electrochemical method for the quantification of metallothioneins in microorganisms. Mar Envir Res 11:137–152

    Google Scholar 

  • Thompson JAJ, Davis JC, Drew RE (1976) Toxicity, uptake and survey studies of boron in the marine environment. Water Res 10:869–875

    Google Scholar 

  • Thompson JAJ, Nassichuk MD, Paton DW, Reid BJ, Farrell MA (1986) Examination of tissue metal burdens and metal-binding proteins in the Golden King Crab (Lithodes aequispina Benedict) from Alice Arm and Hastings Arm, British Columbia. Can Tech Rep Fish Aquat Sci No. 1440, 44 pp

  • Waldichuk M (1964) Dispersion of Kraft mill effluent from a submarine diffuser in Stuart Channel, British Columbia. J Fish Res Bd Can 21:1289–1316

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. C.B. Research International Corp., V8L 4M7, Sidney, B.C., Canada

    B. E. Imber & S. Ward

  2. Ocean Chemistry Division, Institute of Ocean Sciences, V8L 4B2, Sidney, B.C., Canada

    J. A. J. Thompson

Authors
  1. B. E. Imber
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. J. A. J. Thompson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. S. Ward
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Imber, B.E., Thompson, J.A.J. & Ward, S. Metal-binding protein in the Pacific Oyster,Crassostrea gigas: Assessment of the protein as a biochemical environmental indicator. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 38, 707–714 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608607

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608607

Keywords

Search

Navigation