Effects of Zn2+, Ca2+, and Mg2+ on the structure of Zn7metallothionein-3: Evidence for an additional zinc binding site

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5700-5707

  Meloni, Gabriele ^a   Polanski, Thomas ^a   Braun, Oliver ^a   Vašák, Milan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC RESIDUES; BINDING CONSTANT; BINDING LIGANDS; ESSENTIAL METALS; FLEXIBLE HINGES; GEL FILTRATION; METAL-THIOLATE; METALLOPROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN-3; METALLOTHIONEINS; PROTEIN DIMERIZATION; PROTEIN DOMAINS; SPECTROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; SPECTROSCOPIC FEATURES; STOKES RADIUS; TIME-DEPENDENT; ZINC-BINDING SITES;

BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; GELATION; MAMMALS; METAL IONS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ZINC;

CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; METALLOTHIONEIN III; MUTANT PROTEIN; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CALCIUM BINDING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIMERIZATION; GEL FILTRATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METAL BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; ZINC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67649227284     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900366p     Document Type: Article

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