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Competition for zinc binding in the host-pathogen interaction

Due to its favorable chemical properties, zinc is used as a structural or catalytic cofactor in a very large number of proteins. Despite the apparent abundance of this metal in all cell types, the intracellular pool of loosely bound zinc ions available for biological exchanges is in the picomolar ra...

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Autores principales: Cerasi, Mauro, Ammendola, Serena, Battistoni, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24400228
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00108