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N-Terminal Cys-Rich Region of a Rice Type 1 Metallothionein Independently Forms Metal-Thiolate Cluster.
Protein and peptide letters - 1 Jan 2016
Ahmadi Soheila, Shahpiri Azar
Abstract excerpt
The members of plant metallothionein (MT) subfamily p1 are characterized with the presence of six Cys at each end of N- and C-terminal of their amino acid sequences which are arranged in a CXCXXXCXCXXXCXC and CXCXXXCXCXXCXC sequence, respectively. In this study we evaluated the independence of N-terminal Cys-rich region of a type 1 MT isoform from rice (OsMTI- 1b) in forming metal-thiolate cluster. To this end...
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