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Heavy-metal-associated domain (HMA) is a conserved domain of approximately 30 amino acid residues found in a number of proteins that transport or detoxify heavy metals, for example, the CPx-type heavy metal ATPases and copper chaperones. HMA domain contains two cysteine residues that are important in binding and transfer of metal ions, such as copper, cadmium, cobalt and zinc. In the case of copper, stoichiometry of binding is one Cu+ ion per binding domain. Repeats of the HMA domain in copper chaperone has been associated with Menkes/Wilson disease due to binding of multiple copper ions.
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