Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25160626›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2014

Metal preferences and metallation.

Andrew W Foster, Deenah Osman, Nigel J Robinson

Open access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 180 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
180citing papers in PubMed
22.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

180 citing papers in PubMed, 371 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. ACS applied polymer materials · 2026
    Article
  5. Immunoblot-based activity assay for heme-containing histidine kinases.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2026
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Metal oxide nanoparticles: emerging stars in biomedical application.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026
    Review
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Microbial metal physiology: ions to ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025
    Review
  13. Effects of MgBiochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025
    Article
  14. The E. coli escape wave in response to external ZnBiometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2025
    Article
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Zinc-metallochaperones ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2025
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Bacteria Under Metal Stress-Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Tolerance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Review

120 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew W FosterFrom the Department of Chemistry and School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
Deenah OsmanFrom the Department of Chemistry and School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
Nigel J RobinsonFrom the Department of Chemistry and School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom nigel.robinson@durham.ac.uk.
Durham University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J017787/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K00817X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The metal binding preferences of most metalloproteins do not match their metal requirements. Thus, metallation of an estimated 30% of metalloenzymes is aided by metal delivery systems, with ∼ 25% acquiring preassembled metal cofactors. The remaining ∼ 70% are presumed to compete for metals from buffered metal pools. Metallation is further aided by maintaining the relative concentrations of these pools as an inverse function of the stabilities of the respective metal complexes. For example, magnesium enzymes always prefer to bind zinc, and these metals dominate the metalloenzymes without metal delivery systems. Therefore, the buffered concentration of zinc is held at least a million-fold below magnesium inside most cells.

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsBiological TransportClostridiumCyanobacteriaEscherichia coliHelicobacter pyloriIronKineticsMagnesiumManganeseMetalloproteinsModels, MolecularThermodynamicsZincBacterial ProteinsIronMagnesiumManganeseMetalloproteinsZincCopperIronIrving-Williams SeriesManganeseMetallochaperoneMetalloenzymesMetal SensorsNickelPolydisperse BufferZinc

Identifiers

PMID25160626
PMCPMC4192464
OpenAlexW2019190661

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.