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The present rules concerning the nomenclature of metallothionein were formulated at the Second International Meeting of Metallothionein in 1985. Since that time, a large number of additional amino acid sequences of metallothionein have become known yielding ample phylogenetic information. On the basis of this development, a new revision of the nomenclature is proposed.
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Kojima, Y., Binz, PA., Kägi, J.H.R. (1999). Nomenclature of metallothionein: Proposal for a revision. In: Klaassen, C.D. (eds) Metallothionein IV. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8847-9_1
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