In vivo-folded metal-metallothionein 3 complexes reveal the Cu-thionein rather than Zn-thionein character of this brain-specific mammalian metallothionein

FEBS Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1659-1678

  Artells, Ester ^a,b,c   Palacios, Òscar ^a   Capdevila, Mercè ^a   Atrian, Sílvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cu complexes; mammals; metal specificity; polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CU COMPLEXES; MAMMALS; METAL SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CADMIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COPPER; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84899409740     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12731     Document Type: Article

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