On the abundance of zinc in the evolutionarily old protein domains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages

  Mulkidjanian, Armen Y ^a,b   Galperin, Michael Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ZINC; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC SULFIDE; PROTEIN;

LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OXYGENATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; UBIQUITINATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; ZINC;

EID: 77957661775     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008745107     Document Type: Letter

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