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Amino acid screening based on structural modeling identifies critical residues for the function, ion selectivity and structure of Arabidopsis MTP1.
The FEBS journal - 1 Jul 2012
Kawachi Miki, Kobae Yoshihiro, Kogawa Sayaka, Mimura Tetsuro, Krämer Ute, Maeshima Masayoshi
Abstract excerpt
Arabidopsis thaliana MTP1 is a vacuolar membrane Zn(2+)/H(+) antiporter of the cation diffusion facilitator family. Here we present a structure-function analysis of AtMTP1-mediated transport and its remarkable Zn(2+) selectivity by functional complementation tests of more than 50 mutant variants in metal-sensitive yeast strains. This was combined with homology modeling of AtMTP1 based on the crystal structure of...
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