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A platform for copper pumps

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Copper is vital to most cells, but too much is lethal. The structure of a protein that pumps copper ions out of the cytosol provides insight into both the pumping mechanism and how certain mutations in the protein cause disease. See Article p.59

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Figure 1: A copper-exporting enzyme.

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