Publication Date:
2006-07-22
Description:
CorA family members are ubiquitously distributed transporters of divalent metal cations and are considered to be the primary Mg2+ transporter of Bacteria and Archaea. We have determined a 2.9 angstrom resolution structure of CorA from Thermotoga maritima that reveals a pentameric cone-shaped protein. Two potential regulatory metal binding sites are found in the N-terminal domain that bind both Mg2+ and Co2+. The structure of CorA supports an efflux system involving dehydration and rehydration of divalent metal ions potentially mediated by a ring of conserved aspartate residues at the cytoplasmic entrance and a carbonyl funnel at the periplasmic side of the pore.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Eshaghi, Said -- Niegowski, Damian -- Kohl, Andreas -- Martinez Molina, Daniel -- Lesley, Scott A -- Nordlund, Par -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jul 21;313(5785):354-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biophysics, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. Said.Eshaghi@ki.se〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16857941" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Binding Sites
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Cation Transport Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Chlorides/analysis/metabolism
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Cobalt/chemistry/*metabolism
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Magnesium/chemistry/*metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Quaternary
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Sequence Alignment
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Thermotoga maritima/*chemistry
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Water/chemistry
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
