Bacterial sensors define intracellular free energies for correct enzyme metalation
January 28th, 2019 by Deenah Osman
Bacterial sensors define intracellular free energies for correct enzyme metalation
Bacterial sensors define intracellular free energies for correct enzyme metalation, Published online: 28 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0211-4
The sensitivities of a set of bacterial metal-sensing transcriptional regulators explain how a protein, such as the cobalt chelatase CbiK, is metalated with its cognate metal in cells rather than mis-metalated with more tightly binding metals.