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Highly sensitive and selective gold(I) recognition by a metalloregulator in Ralstonia metallidurans
Xing Jian1, Erik C Wasinger, Jenny V Lockard
1Department of Chemistry, 929 East 57th Street, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Abstract:
A MerR family metalloregulatory protein CupR selectively responds to gold stress in Ralstonia metallidurans. A distorted trigonal geometry appears to be used by CupR to achieve the highly sensitive (K(d) approximately 10(-35) M) and selective recognition of gold(I).
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