Mammalian MT1 and MT2 metallothioneins differ in their metal binding abilities

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

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Zn- and Cu-thioneins: a functional classification for metallothioneins?

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Chemistry and biology of mammalian metallothioneins

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Gains, Losses and Changes of Function after Gene Duplication: Study of the Metallothionein Family

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Affinity gradients drive copper to cellular destinations

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

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

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Three-dimensional solution structure of mouse [Cd7]-metallothionein-l by homonuclear and heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy

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