BiochemistrybioRxiv
Intestinal Mucin Is a Chaperone of Multivalent Copper
N. Reznik, A. D. Gallo, K. W. Rush…·D. Fass
The paper identifies intestinal mucin MUC2 as a copper chaperone that binds and protects against copper toxicity while enabling copper uptake.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.021