Example sentences for: metal-binding

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  • The characteristic motifs of metallo-β-lactamases, which mostly include metal-binding histidines, are highly conserved in MJ0301 and its orthologs (Figure 3).

  • These suggestive features include the fusion with a ferredoxin domain seen in the M. thermoautotrophicum member MTH601, the insertion of the metal-binding module in certain members, including MJ0757 (see above), and the presence of three cysteines that are conserved throughout this family.

  • Analogous to the RecT superfamily, this acidic dyad might coordinate a divalent cation and undergo a conformational change dependent on metal-binding.

  • However, despite extensive comparisons using PSSM and careful visual examination, we failed to detect any residual sequence similarity between DDRP and RDRP, outside the core DPBB domain containing the metal-binding active site.

  • The residues in the MIDAS motifs lie on three closely apposed loops located on the upper edge of the β-sheet, where they form the metal-binding site, with oxygen atoms in the aspartate, serine and threonine residues coordinating the metal ion [ 9 ] . In integrin α2β1, which is a collagen receptor, the metal-binding site also binds the collagen ligand through the conserved glutamate in a GFOGER motif (O = hydroxyproline) completing the coordination sphere of the metal [ 28 ] . In vivo, the binding of collagen at this site appears to be regulated through a conformational shift in which the loops forming the MIDAS site change from a closed to an open conformation [ 29 30 31 ] . Other proteins containing a domain with all three MIDAS motifs include the D-subunit of magnesium chelatase [ 32 ] , Ca-activated chloride-channel protein [ 33 34 ] , nitrate reductase (accession AAC79447), and the D subunit of nitric oxide reductase (accession AAC45374).


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