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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
卷 15, 期 30, 页码 7350-7358出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900870
关键词
metalloproteins; peptides; protein folding; zinc; zinc fingers
资金
- Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation
- Danish Instrument Centre for CERN (NICE)
- Danish Natural Science Research Council
- EU
The present study demonstrates that both the nature (Zn-II, Cd-II or Hg-II) and supply of metal ions determine Whether Zinc fingers fold into the well-known, fully loaded structures or alternatively populate a variety of structural states under substoichiometric conditions. Metal-bridged species are observed by perturbed angular correlation (PAC), EXAFS, UV spectroscopy, and stopped-flow kinetics. Transitions between structural states as adaptive reactions to changed metal-ion supply might represent intelligent system changes in zinc homeostasis, trafficking and signalling, and reflect features of heavy-metal toxicity at the molecular level. Because the zinc fingers exist in structural states that are different from the metal-free and fully loaded species, the prevailing view on metal-mediated molecular regulation in terms of on and off control might be oversimplified.
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