Turk B, Porras A, Mumby M C, Rundell K
Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611-3008.
J Virol. 1993 Jun;67(6):3671-3. doi: 10.1128/JVI.67.6.3671-3673.1993.
Six cysteine residues of the simian virus 40 small-t antigen (small-t) are important for stability of the protein. Stability has been shown to be related to the ability of small-t to bind zinc ions in vitro. Purified small-t expressed either in bacteria or from baculovirus vectors binds two molecules of zinc per molecule of protein. Thus, small-t may resemble GAL4, which contains a Zn(II)2Cys6 binuclear cluster.