Oxo-iron clusters in a bacterial iron-trafficking protein: New roles for a conserved motif

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-41

  Zhu, Haizhong ^a   Alexeev, Dmitriy ^a,b   Hunter, Dominic J B ^a   Campopiano, Dominic J ^a   Sadler, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Millennium Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial transferrin; Dityrosyl motif; Iron transport; Iron binding protein; Oxo iron cluster; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IRON; PROTEINS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

IRON-BINDING MOTIF;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; IRON DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; TRANSFERRIN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0345688126     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20031283     Document Type: Article

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