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SOD1 exhibits allosteric frustration to facilitate metal binding affinity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Mar 2013
Das Atanu, Plotkin Steven S
Abstract excerpt
Superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) is a ubiquitous, Cu and Zn binding, free-radical defense enzyme whose misfolding and aggregation play a potential key role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease. Over 150 mutations in SOD1 have been identified with a familial form of the disease, but it is presently not clear what unifying features, if any, these mutants share to make them...
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