Journal
NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 25-35Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2057
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/E001688/1.]
- BBSRC [BB/E001688/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E001688/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Protein metal-coordination sites are richly varied and exquisitely attuned to their inorganic partners, yet many metalloproteins still select the wrong metals when presented with mixtures of elements. Cells have evolved elaborate mechanisms to scavenge for sufficient metal atoms to meet their needs and to adjust their needs to match supply. Metal sensors, transporters and stores have often been discovered as metal-resistance determinants, but it is emerging that they perform a broader role in microbial physiology: they allow cells to overcome inadequate protein metal affinities to populate large numbers of metalloproteins with the right metals.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available