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SUBMITTER: Banci L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4017183 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Banci Lucia L Barbieri Letizia L Bertini Ivano I Luchinat Enrico E Secci Erica E Zhao Yuguang Y Aricescu A Radu AR
Nature chemical biology 20130303 5
We use NMR directly in live human cells to describe the complete post-translational maturation process of human superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). We follow, at atomic resolution, zinc binding, homodimer formation and copper uptake, and discover that copper chaperone for SOD1 oxidizes the SOD1 intrasubunit disulfide bond through both copper-dependent and copper-independent mechanisms. Our approach represents a new strategy for structural investigation of endogenously expressed proteins in a physiolo ...[more]