Publication Date:
1997-11-05
Description:
Reactive and potentially toxic cofactors such as copper ions are imported into eukaryotic cells and incorporated into target proteins by unknown mechanisms. Atx1, a prototypical copper chaperone protein from yeast, has now been shown to act as a soluble cytoplasmic copper(I) receptor that can adopt either a two- or three-coordinate metal center in the active site. Atx1 also associated directly with the Atx1-like cytosolic domains of Ccc2, a vesicular protein defined in genetic studies as a member of the copper-trafficking pathway. The unusual structure and dynamics of Atx1 suggest a copper exchange function for this protein and related domains in the Menkes and Wilson disease proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pufahl, R A -- Singer, C P -- Peariso, K L -- Lin, S J -- Schmidt, P J -- Fahrni, C J -- Culotta, V C -- Penner-Hahn, J E -- O'Halloran, T V -- GM-38047/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-50016/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-54111/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM054111/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Oct 31;278(5339):853-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9346482" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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*Carrier Proteins
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*Cation Transport Proteins
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Copper/*metabolism
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Escherichia coli
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Fungal Proteins/metabolism/*physiology
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Humans
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Molecular Chaperones/*physiology
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Recombinant Proteins
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism/*physiology
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*Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
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Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
