CorA metal ion transporter

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CorA-like Mg2+ transporter protein
Identifiers
Symbol	CorA
Pfam	PF01544
InterPro	IPR002523
TCDB	1.A.35
OPM family	72
OPM protein	2bbj
Available PDB structures: 2bbhA:56-266 2bbjD:56-351

The CorA transport system is the primary Mg²⁺ influx system of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli^[1]^[2]. CorA is ubiquitous in the Bacteria and Archaea. There are also eukaryotic members of the family.

1 Subfamilies
2 Human proteins containing this domain
3 References
4 Further reading

[edit] Subfamilies

Magnesium and cobalt transport protein CorA IPR004488

[edit] Human proteins containing this domain

MRS2L;

[edit] References

^ Maguire ME, Kehres DG, Lawyer CH (1998). "The CorA magnesium transporter gene family". Microb. Comp. Genomics 3 (3): 151–169. PMID 9775386.
^ Smith RL, Maguire ME, Szegedy MA, Kucharski LM, Walker C, Wiet RM, Redpath A, Kaczmarek MT (1998). "The CorA Mg2+ transport protein of Salmonella typhimurium. Mutagenesis of conserved residues in the third membrane domain identifies a Mg2+ pore". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (44): 28663–28669. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.44.28663. PMID 9786860.

[edit] Further reading

[1]. The CorA magnesium transporter gene family. Kehres DG, Lawyer CH, Maguire ME; Microb Comp Genomics 1998;3:151-169. PubMed
[2]. The CorA Mg2+ transport protein of Salmonella typhimurium. Mutagenesis of conserved residues in the third membrane domain identifies a Mg2+ pore. Smith RL, Szegedy MA, Kucharski LM, Walker C, Wiet RM, Redpath A, Kaczmarek MT, Maguire ME; J Biol Chem 1998;273:28663-28669. PubMed
[3]. The nuclear gene MRS2 is essential for the excision of group II introns from yeast mitochondrial transcripts in vivo. Wiesenberger G, Waldherr M, Schweyen RJ; J Biol Chem 1992;267:6963-6969. PubMed