Crystal structures of the CusA efflux pump suggest methionine-mediated metal transport

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7314, 2010, Pages 484-488

  Long, Feng ^a   Su, Chih Chia ^a   Zimmermann, Michael T ^a   Boyken, Scott E ^a   Rajashankar, Kanagalaghatta R ^b   Jernigan, Robert L ^a   Yu, Edward W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COPPER ION; CUSA PROTEIN; METHIONINE; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APOPROTEIN; COPPER; CUSA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; BIOASSAY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COPPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METAL BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

APOPROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHIONINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SILVER; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 77957141422     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09395     Document Type: Article

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