Intestinal Mucin Is a Chaperone of Multivalent Copper
N. Reznik, A. D. Gallo, K. W. Rush, G. Javitt, Y. Fridmann-Sirkis, T. Ilani, N. A. Nairner, K. Chacon, K. J. Franz, D. Fass
The paper identifies intestinal mucin MUC2 as a copper chaperone that binds and protects against copper toxicity while enabling copper uptake.
bioRxiv · Jan 2, 2022Biochemistry