Metallothionein protein evolution: a miniassay

Shaping mechanisms of metal specificity in a family of metazoan metallothioneins: evolutionary differentiation of mollusc metallothioneins

(2011) Òscar Palacios et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The Metal-Thiolate Clusters of Plant Metallothioneins

(2010) Eva Freisinger   CHIMIA

Contents: J. Basic Microbiol. 1/2010

(2010)   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Bert L. Vallee, “Mr. Zinc” (1919–2010)

(2010)   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Zinc proteomes, phylogenetics and evolution

(2010) Leonardo Decaria et al.   Metallomics

Copper proteomes, phylogenetics and evolution

(2010) Leonardo Decaria et al.   Metallomics

The isolated Cys2His2 site in EC metallothionein mediates metal-specific protein folding

(2010) Oksana Iryna Leszczyszyn et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Metallothioneins: unparalleled diversity in structures and functions for metal ion homeostasis and more

(2010) Claudia A. Blindauer et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Reply to Mulkidjanian and Galperin: Zn may have constrained evolution during the Proterozoic but not the Archean

(2010) C. L. Dupont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures

(2010) C. L. Dupont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

(2009) Armen Y Mulkidjanian   Biology Direct

Caenorhabditis elegans metallothionein isoform specificity - metal binding abilities and the role of histidine in CeMT1 and CeMT2

(2009) Roger Bofill et al.   FEBS Journal

Independent metal-binding features of recombinant metallothioneins convergently draw a step gradation between Zn- and Cu-thioneins

(2009) Roger Bofill et al.   Metallomics

A bacterial copper metallothionein

(2008) Nigel J Robinson   Nature Chemical Biology

Identification of a copper-binding metallothionein in pathogenic mycobacteria

(2008) Ben Gold et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Metallothioneins with unusual residues: Histidines as modulators of zinc affinity and reactivity

(2007) Claudia A. Blindauer   JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY