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An atomic-level investigation of the disease-causing A629P mutant of the Menkes protein, ATP7A.
Journal of molecular biology - 16 Sept 2005
Banci Lucia, Bertini Ivano, Cantini Francesca, Migliardi Manuele, Rosato Antonio, Wang Shenlin
Abstract excerpt
Menkes disease is a fatal disease that can be induced by various mutations in the ATP7A gene, leading to unpaired uptake of dietary copper. The ATP7A gene encodes a copper(I)-translocating ATPase. Here the disease-causing A629P mutation, which occurs in the last of the six copper(I)-binding soluble domains of the ATPase (hereafter MNK6), was investigated. To understand why this apparently minor amino acid...
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