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It is well known that metals play an important role in post-transcriptional modifications of proteins stabilizing their structure and physiological activity [1]. The mechanism by which biosynthesized proteins interact with metals and originate such cluster structures like metallothionein (MT) remain unclear.
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Kurasaki, M. et al. (1999). Protein engineering of metallothionein to study the metal-binding ability. In: Klaassen, C.D. (eds) Metallothionein IV. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8847-9_17
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