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SUBMITTER: Hartwig C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hartwig Cortnie C Zlatic Stephanie A SA Wallin Melissa M Vrailas-Mortimer Alysia A Fahrni Christoph J CJ Faundez Victor V
Current opinion in cell biology 20190329
Copper is an essential micronutrient required for oxygen-dependent enzymes, yet excess of the metal is a toxicant. The tug-of-war between these copper activities is balanced by chaperones and membrane transporters, which control copper distribution and availability. The P-type ATPase transporters, ATP7A and ATP7B, regulate cytoplasmic copper by pumping copper out of cells or into the endomembrane system. Mutations in ATP7A and ATP7B cause diseases that share neuropsychiatric phenotypes, which ar ...[more]