CorA metal ion transporter

The CorA transport system is the primary Mg²⁺ influx system of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.[2][3] CorA is ubiquitous in the Bacteria and Archaea. There are also eukaryotic members of the family localized to the mitochondrial membrane such as MRS2 and Lpe10 in yeast.

CorA-like Mg2+ transporter protein
Structure of the CorA Mg2+ transporter.[1]
Identifiers
Symbol	CorA
Pfam	PF01544
InterPro	IPR002523
TCDB	1.A.35
OPM superfamily	66
OPM protein	2bbj
CDD	cd11744
Available protein structures: Pfam   structures / ECOD   PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj PDBsum structure summary PDB 2bbhA:56-266 2bbjD:56-351

Subfamilies

• Magnesium and cobalt transport protein CorA InterPro: IPR004488

Human proteins containing this domain

MRS2L;

References

1. Lunin VV, Dobrovetsky E, Khutoreskaya G, et al. (April 2006). "Crystal structure of the CorA Mg2+ transporter". Nature. 440 (7085): 833–7. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..833L. doi:10.1038/nature04642. PMC 3836678. PMID 16598263.
2. Maguire ME, Kehres DG, Lawyer CH (1998). "The CorA magnesium transporter gene family". Microb. Comp. Genom. 3 (3): 151–169. doi:10.1089/omi.1.1998.3.151. PMID 9775386.
3. 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.

Further reading

• Kehres DG, Lawyer CH, Maguire ME (1998). "The CorA magnesium transporter gene family". Microb. Comp. Genom. 3 (3): 151–69. doi:10.1089/omi.1.1998.3.151. PMID 9775386.
• Smith RL, Szegedy MA, Kucharski LM, et al. (October 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): 28663–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.44.28663. PMID 9786860.
• Wiesenberger G, Waldherr M, Schweyen RJ (April 1992). "The nuclear gene MRS2 is essential for the excision of group II introns from yeast mitochondrial transcripts in vivo". J. Biol. Chem. 267 (10): 6963–9. PMID 1551905.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR002523