Volume 105, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 589-599
Review Article
Evidence
for operation of the direct zinc ligand exchange mechanism for
trafficking, transport, and reactivity of zinc in mammalian cells
Outline
- Abstract
- Graphical abstract
- Keywords
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The forms of zinc in mammalian biological systems (terminology issues)
- 3. The concentration and forms of zinc delivered to mammalian cells in situ
- 4. The cellular pools of zinc
- 5. Cellular zinc uptake transport processes
- 6. The Zn exchange kinetics of plasma membrane zinc uptake transport from ISF
- 7. Interpretation: operation of a direct Zn-ligand → transporter exchange mechanism
- 8. Mechanism of plasma membrane ZIP-family Zn uptake transport
- 9. The direct Zn-ligand exchange kinetics of mitochondrial zinc uptake transport
- 10. The direct Zn-ligand mechanism of zinc reactivity
- 11. What do these collective studies demonstrate?
- 12. The physiological zinc donor ligands in mammalian cells
- 13. The impact of the direct Zn-ligand exchange mechanism on biomedical research and clinical application of zinc relationships
- 14. Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
Graphical abstract
We show that the transport, trafficking, and reactivity of zinc occur via a direct Zn ligand exchange process.
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