Abstract Magnesium (Mg 2+) is an essential ion to the human body, playing an instrumental
role in supporting and sustaining health and life. As the second most abundant intracellular …

Magnesium, the second most abundant cellular cation after potassium, is essential to
regulate numerous cellular functions and enzymes, including ion channels, metabolic …

The 'EF-hand'Ca2+-binding motif plays an essential role in eukaryotic cellular signalling,
and the proteins containing this motif constitute a large and functionally diverse family. The …

The EF-hand motif is the most common calcium-binding motif found in proteins. Several high-
resolution structures containing different metal ions bound to EF-hand sites have given new …

Oil bodies are lipid storage organelles which have been analyzed biochemically due to the
economic importance of oil seeds. Although oil bodies are structurally simple, the …

Abstract Background In plants, calcium (Ca 2+) has emerged as an important messenger
mediating the action of many hormonal and environmental signals, including biotic and …

Mammalian cells tightly regulate cellular Mg 2+ content through a variety of transport and
buffering mechanisms under the control of various hormones and cellular second …

Assigning proteins with functions based on the 3‐D structure requires high‐speed
techniques to make a systematic survey of protein structures. Calcium regulates many …

We delineate the factors governing the carboxylate-binding mode (monodentate vs
bidentate) in metalloproteins. We reveal how the carboxylate-binding mode affects the …

The influence of hydration on the internal dynamics of a typical EF-hand calciprotein,
parvalbumin, was investigated by incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (IQNS) and …