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. 1999 Feb 19;445(1):27-30.
doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00091-5.

The Enterococcus hirae copper chaperone CopZ delivers copper(I) to the CopY repressor

P Cobine  1 , W A Wickramasinghe, M D Harrison, T Weber, M Solioz, C T Dameron
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The Enterococcus hirae copper chaperone CopZ delivers copper(I) to the CopY repressor

P Cobine et al. FEBS Lett. .
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Abstract

Expression of the cop operon which effects copper homeostasis in Enterococcus hirae is controlled by the copper responsive repressor CopY. Purified Zn(II)CopY binds to a synthetic cop promoter fragment in vitro. Here we show that the 8 kDa protein CopZ acts as a copper chaperone by specifically delivering copper(I) to Zn(II)CopY and releasing CopY from the DNA. As shown by gel filtration and luminescence spectroscopy, two copper(I) are thereby quantitatively transferred from Cu(I)CopZ to Zn(II)CopY, with displacement of the zinc(II) and transfer of copper from a non-luminescent, exposed, binding site in CopZ to a luminescent, solvent shielded, binding site in CopY.

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