March 2011

Dr Zhiguang Xiao represented the Group at the Bio21 Institute Seminar. He outlined the range of our work on copper transporting proteins, with an emphasis on the characterisation of CopK which binds both Cu(I) and Cu(II) cooperatively (work of Lee Xin Chong with structural collaborators Mark Hinds (WEHI) and Megan Maher (University of Sydney).