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TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 29-32Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(99)01492-9
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Copper is required by all living systems. Cells have a variety of mechanisms to deal with this essential, yet toxic trace element. A recently discovered facet of homeostatic mechanisms is the protein-mediated, intracellular delivery of copper to target proteins. This routing is accomplished by a novel class of proteins, the 'copper chaperones'. They are a family of conserved proteins present in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, which suggests that copper chaperones are used throughout nature for intracellular copper routing.
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