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The influence of protein folding on the copper affinities of trafficking and target sites.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) - 7 Mar 2013
Allen Stephen, Badarau Adriana, Dennison Christopher
Abstract excerpt
The relative influence of protein unfolding on the Cu(I) affinity of trafficking and target sites for copper has been determined. For the copper metallochaperone Atx1 from Synechocystis PCC 6803 (a cyanobacterium), Saccharomyces cerevisiae and humans unfolding in urea results in a decrease in the Cu(I) affinity from (4-5) × 10(17) M(-1) to (1-3) × 10(16) M(-1) at pH 7. The affinities of the unfolded Atx1s are...
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