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Science 21 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5845, pp. 1695 - 1696
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149048
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
How Cells Control Zinc Homeostasis

Dietrich H. Nies

The structure of a transport protein for divalent metal cations sheds light on how metal concentrations in the cell are regulated.

The author is in the Institute for Microbiology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle/Saale, Germany. E-mail: d.nies{at}mikrobiologie.uni-halle.de

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