Affiliation:
1. Unité de Biochimie des Régulations Cellulaires, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Abstract
The recent finding that Bacillus stearothermophilus adenylate kinase contains a zinc atom coordinated to four cysteines prompted us to investigate the metal-binding properties of the enzyme from various bacteria. We conclude that zinc was present only in adenylate kinase from gram-positive species and that this property is correlated with the presence of three or four Cys residues in the sequence Cys-X2-Cys-X16-Cys-X2-Cys/Asp, in which X stands for different amino acid residues.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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