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Originally published in Science Express on 7 June 2001
Science 29 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5526, pp. 2488 - 2492
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060331
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Femtomolar Sensitivity of Metalloregulatory Proteins Controlling Zinc Homeostasis

Caryn E. Outten,1 and Thomas V. O'Halloran12*

Intracellular zinc is thought to be available in a cytosolic pool of free or loosely bound Zn(II) ions in the micromolar to picomolar range. To test this, we determined the mechanism of zinc sensors that control metal uptake or export in Escherichia coli and calibrated their response against the thermodynamically defined free zinc concentration. Whereas the cellular zinc quota is millimolar, free Zn(II) concentrations that trigger transcription of zinc uptake or efflux machinery are femtomolar, or six orders of magnitude less than one atom per cell. This is not consistent with a cytosolic pool of free Zn(II) and suggests an extraordinary intracellular zinc-binding capacity. Thus, cells exert tight control over cytosolic metal concentrations, even for relatively low-toxicity metals such as zinc.

1 Department of Chemistry and
2 Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: t-ohalloran{at}northwestern.edu

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A Nickel-Cobalt-sensing ArsR-SmtB Family Repressor. CONTRIBUTIONS OF CYTOSOL AND EFFECTOR BINDING SITES TO METAL SELECTIVITY.
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Surplus Zinc Is Handled by Zym1 Metallothionein and Zhf Endoplasmic Reticulum Transporter in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
G. P. M. Borrelly, M. D. Harrison, A. K. Robinson, S. G. Cox, N. J. Robinson, and S. K. Whitehall (2002)
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Mammalian metal response element-binding transcription factor-1 functions as a zinc sensor in yeast, but not as a sensor of cadmium or oxidative stress.
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Substrate-activated Zinc Binding of Metallo-beta -lactamases. PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE MONONUCLEAR ENZYMES.
S. Wommer, S. Rival, U. Heinz, M. Galleni, J.-M. Frere, N. Franceschini, G. Amicosante, B. Rasmussen, R. Bauer, and H.-W. Adolph (2002)
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A Novel Zinc-regulated Human Zinc Transporter, hZTL1, Is Localized to the Enterocyte Apical Membrane.
R. A. Cragg, G. R. Christie, S. R. Phillips, R. M. Russi, S. Kury, J. C. Mathers, P. M. Taylor, and D. Ford (2002)
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A Transporter in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Cells Mediates Zinc Storage and Differentially Affects Transition Metal Tolerance.
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