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About half of the missense AE-causing mutations occur within the large N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD), and our previous study has shown that ZIP4\u2013ECD is crucial for optimal zinc uptake but the underlying mechanism has not been clarified. In this work, we examined zinc binding to the isolated ZIP4\u2013ECD from Pteropus Alecto (black fruit bat) and located zinc-binding sites with a low micromolar affinity within a histidine-rich loop ubiquitously present in ZIP4 proteins. Zinc binding to this protease-susceptible loop induces a small and highly localized structural perturbation. Mutagenesis and functional study on human ZIP4 by using an improved cell-based zinc uptake assay indicated that the histidine residues within this loop are not involved in preselection of metal substrate but play a role in promoting zinc transport. The possible function of the histidine-rich loop as a metal chaperone facilitating zinc binding to the transport site and\/or a zinc sensor allosterically regulating the transport machinery was discussed. This work helps to establish the structure\/function relationship of ZIP4 and also sheds light on other metal transporters and metalloproteins with clustered histidine residues.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1042\/bcj20190108","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,4]],"date-time":"2019-06-04T17:05:18Z","timestamp":1559667918000},"page":"1791-1803","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1042\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["The histidine-rich loop in the extracellular domain of ZIP4 binds zinc and plays a role in zinc transport"],"prefix":"10.1042","volume":"476","author":[{"given":"Tuo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eziz","family":"Kuliyev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dexin","family":"Sui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6657-9826","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jian","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A."},{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"288","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021112217581905900_BCJ-2019-0108C1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"612","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mam.2012.05.011","article-title":"The SLC39 family of zinc transporters","volume":"34","year":"2013","journal-title":"Mol. 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