Novel insights into the metal binding ability of ZinT periplasmic protein from Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica

Abstract

The characterization of Zn(ii) and Cu(ii) complexes with periplasmic protein ZinT suggests that the N-terminal histidine-rich loop plays a role as a primary metal scavenger and that ZinT can possibly transfer a Zn(ii) ion to ZnuA.