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<p>This section provides any useful information about the protein, mostly biological knowledge.<p><a href='/help/function_section' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Functioni
Metallothioneins are small proteins that have a high content of cysteine residues wich allow them to bind heavy metal ions through clusters of thiolate bonds. MymT binds up to seven ions of Cu+, with a preference for four to six Cu+ ions, in a solvent-shielded core. MymT protects M.tuberculosis from copper toxicity.1 Publication
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Manual assertion based on experiment ini
Cited for: IDENTIFICATION, FUNCTION AS A COPPER-BINDING PROTEIN, CHARACTERIZATION, MASS SPECTROMETRY, INDUCTION, DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE.
Miscellaneous
NO and reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) can displace Cu+ from MymT.
Caution
It is uncertain whether Met-1 or Met-6 is the initiator. If Met-1 is the initiator, MymT would undergo a first cleavage after Arg-5 followed by processing of the N-terminal methionine.Curated
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<p>This subsection of the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/function%5Fsection">Function</a> section indicates at which position the protein binds a given metal ion. The nature of the metal is indicated in the 'Description' field.<p><a href='/help/metal' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Metal bindingi
<p>The <a href="http://www.geneontology.org/">Gene Ontology (GO)</a> project provides a set of hierarchical controlled vocabulary split into 3 categories:<p><a href='/help/gene_ontology' target='_top'>More...</a></p>GO - Molecular functioni
copper ion binding Source: MTBBASE
<p>Inferred from Direct Assay</p>
<p>Used to indicate a direct assay for the function, process or component indicated by the GO term.</p>
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Inferred from direct assayi
copper ion homeostasis Source: MTBBASE
<p>Inferred from Mutant Phenotype</p>
<p>Describes annotations that are concluded from looking at variations or changes in a gene product such as mutations or abnormal levels and includes techniques such as knockouts, overexpression, anti-sense experiments and use of specific protein inhibitors.</p>
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Inferred from mutant phenotypei
Cited for: IDENTIFICATION, FUNCTION AS A COPPER-BINDING PROTEIN, CHARACTERIZATION, MASS SPECTROMETRY, INDUCTION, DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE.
response to cadmium ion Source: MTBBASE
<p>Inferred from Expression Pattern</p>
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Inferred from expression patterni
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Recommended name:
Metallothionein
Short name:
MT
Alternative name(s):
Copper-binding metallothionein
Short name:
Cu(I)-binding metallothionein
Mycobacterial metallothionein
<p>This subsection of the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/names%5Fand%5Ftaxonomy%5Fsection">Names and taxonomy</a> section indicates the name(s) of the gene(s) that code for the protein sequence(s) described in the entry. Four distinct tokens exist: 'Name', 'Synonyms', 'Ordered locus names' and 'ORF names'.<p><a href='/help/gene_name' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Gene namesi
Name:mymT
Ordered Locus Names:Rv0186A
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UP000001584
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Cells lacking this gene show hypersensitivity to Cu+ toxicity but not to divalent heavy metals such as Zn2+. Deficiency of MymT does not impair M.tuberculosis virulence in mice.2 Publications
<p>This subsection of the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/ptm%5Fprocessing%5Fsection">PTM / Processing</a> section describes a propeptide, which is a part of a protein that is cleaved during maturation or activation. Once cleaved, a propeptide generally has no independent biological function.<p><a href='/help/propep' target='_top'>More...</a></p>PropeptideiPRO_0000401202
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Up-regulated by copper, cadmium, cobalt, nickel and zinc, but not manganese. Copper and cadmium salts afford the strongest metal-dependent induction at about 1,000-fold. Also highly up-regulated under conditions that are believed to be attained in phagosomes of interferon-gamma-activated macrophages, including production of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediates, mild acid (pH 5.5), and cell wall perturbation (PubMed:18724363). Repressed by RicR (PubMed:21166899).2 Publications
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<p>This subsection of the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/sequences%5Fsection">Sequence</a> section indicates if the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/canonical%5Fand%5Fisoforms">canonical sequence</a> displayed by default in the entry is in its mature form or if it represents the precursor.<p><a href='/help/sequence_processing' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Sequence processingi: The displayed sequence is further processed into a mature form.
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<p>The checksum is computed as the sequence 64-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check value (CRC64)
using the generator polynomial: x<sup>64</sup> + x<sup>4</sup> + x<sup>3</sup> + x + 1.
The algorithm is described in the ISO 3309 standard.
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<p class="publication">Press W.H., Flannery B.P., Teukolsky S.A. and Vetterling W.T.<br />
<strong>Cyclic redundancy and other checksums</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.nrbook.com/b/bookcpdf.php">Numerical recipes in C 2nd ed., pp896-902, Cambridge University Press (1993)</a>)</p>
Checksum:iB64C8B485F1668D7
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Molecular mass is 4933.4 Da. Determined by MALDI. 1 Publication
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Sequence databases
Select the link destinations: EMBLi GenBanki DDBJi
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MYMT_MYCTU
<p>This subsection of the 'Entry information' section provides one or more accession number(s). These are stable identifiers and should be used to cite UniProtKB entries. Upon integration into UniProtKB, each entry is assigned a unique accession number, which is called 'Primary (citable) accession number'.<p><a href='/help/accession_numbers' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Accessioni
<p>This subsection of the 'Entry information' section shows the date of integration of the entry into UniProtKB, the date of the last sequence update and the date of the last annotation modification ('Last modified'). The version number for both the entry and the <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/help/canonical%5Fand%5Fisoforms">canonical sequence</a> are also displayed.<p><a href='/help/entry_history' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Entry historyi
Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:
April 16, 2014
Last sequence update:
April 16, 2014
Last modified:
April 7, 2021
This is version 32 of the entry and version 1 of the sequence. See complete history.
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