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Cox17 is functional when tethered to the mitochondrial inner membrane.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 13 Feb 2004
Maxfield Andrew B, Heaton Daren N, Winge Dennis R
Abstract excerpt
Cox17 is an essential protein in the assembly of cytochrome c oxidase within the mitochondrion. Cox17 is implicated in providing copper ions for formation of CuA and CuB sites in the oxidase complex. To address whether Cox17 is functional in shuttling copper ions to the mitochondrion, Cox17 was tethered to the mitochondrial inner membrane by a fusion to the transmembrane domain of the inner membrane protein,...
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