Biology:CorA metal ion transporter
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| CorA-like Mg2+ transporter protein | |||||||||||
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 Structure of the CorA Mg2+ transporter.[1] | |||||||||||
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| Symbol | CorA | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF01544 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR002523 | ||||||||||
| TCDB | 1.A.35 | ||||||||||
| OPM superfamily | 66 | ||||||||||
| OPM protein | 2bbj | ||||||||||
| CDD | cd11744 | ||||||||||
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The CorA transport system is the primary Mg2+ influx system of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.[2][3] CorA is ubiquitous in the Bacteria and Archaea. There are also eukaryotic members of the family localized to the mitochondrial membrane such as MRS2 and Lpe10 in yeast.
Subfamilies
Human proteins containing this domain
MRS2L;
References
- ↑ "Crystal structure of the CorA Mg2+ transporter". Nature 440 (7085): 833–7. April 2006. doi:10.1038/nature04642. PMID 16598263. Bibcode: 2006Natur.440..833L.
- ↑ "The CorA magnesium transporter gene family". Microb. Comp. Genom. 3 (3): 151–169. 1998. doi:10.1089/omi.1.1998.3.151. PMID 9775386.
- ↑ "The CorA Mg2+ transport protein of Salmonella typhimurium. Mutagenesis of conserved residues in the third membrane domain identifies a Mg2+ pore". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (44): 28663–28669. 1998. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.44.28663. PMID 9786860.
Further reading
- "The CorA magnesium transporter gene family". Microb. Comp. Genom. 3 (3): 151–69. 1998. doi:10.1089/omi.1.1998.3.151. PMID 9775386.
- "The CorA Mg2+ transport protein of Salmonella typhimurium. Mutagenesis of conserved residues in the third membrane domain identifies a Mg2+ pore". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (44): 28663–9. October 1998. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.44.28663. PMID 9786860.
- "The nuclear gene MRS2 is essential for the excision of group II introns from yeast mitochondrial transcripts in vivo". J. Biol. Chem. 267 (10): 6963–9. April 1992. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)50522-1. PMID 1551905.
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