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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Methanobactins: Maintaining copper homeostasis in methanotrophs and beyond.

Grace E Kenney, Amy C Rosenzweig

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. CrpH ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  3. Copper-chelating natural products.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025
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  5. A widespread family of ribosomal peptide metallophores involved in bacterial adaptation to metal stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. A multi-iron enzyme installs copper-binding oxazolone/thioamide pairs on a nontypeableProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  17. A mixed-valent Fe(II)Fe(III) species converts cysteine to an oxazolone/thioamide pair in methanobactin biosynthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  19. Copper binding by a unique family of metalloproteins is dependent on kynurenine formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Grace E KenneyDepartments of Molecular Biosciences, Evanston, Illinois 60208.
Amy C RosenzweigDepartments of Molecular Biosciences, Evanston, Illinois 60208; Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208. Electronic address: amyr@northwestern.edu.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Metalloenzymes and metal homeostasisR35GM118035 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI AMY C. ROSENZWEIG · 2016 to 2026
$7.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118035
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methanobactins (Mbns) are ribosomally produced, post-translationally modified natural products that bind copper with high affinity and specificity. Originally identified in methanotrophic bacteria, which have a high need for copper, operons encoding these compounds have also been found in many non-methanotrophic bacteria. The proteins responsible for Mbn biosynthesis include several novel enzymes. Mbn transport involves export through a multidrug efflux pump and re-internalization via a TonB-dependent transporter. Release of copper from Mbn and the molecular basis for copper regulation of Mbn production remain to be elucidated. Future work is likely to result in the identification of new enzymatic chemistry, opportunities for bioengineering and drug targeting of copper metabolism, and an expanded understanding of microbial metal homeostasis.

Indexed as

BacteriaBacterial ProteinsBiological Transport, ActiveCopperHomeostasisImidazolesMembrane ProteinsOligopeptidesBacterial ProteinsCopperImidazolesMembrane ProteinsmethanobactinOligopeptidestonB protein, Bacteriabacterial geneticschalkophorecopper transportmetal homeostasismetallophoremetalloproteinmethanobactinRiPPssiderophore

Identifiers

PMID29348173
PMCPMC5880147
OpenAlexW2785273844

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