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any of a group of peptides that bind heavy metals (Cd, Zn, Cu, Pb, Hg) in thiolate coordination complexes,

and can be isolated from plant cell suspension cultures. The structure is of the type (-glutamyl-cysteinyl)n-glycine, where n is 2 to 11.

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