1 Running Title: Iron Binding to E. coli Dps 4/13/02 Version (File: Dps-paper11.doc) Iron and Hydrogen Peroxide Detoxification Properties of Dps. A Ferritin-Like DNA Binding Protein of Escherichia coli. * Guanghua Zhao + , Pierpaolo Ceci ± , Andrea Ilari ± , Laura Giangiacomo ± , Thomas M. Laue § , Emilia Chiancone ± and N. Dennis Chasteen +¶ From the Departments of + Chemistry and § Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA and from ± C.S. Biologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, ‘A Rossi Fanelli’, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, 00185 Rome, Italy. ¶ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Chemistry, Parsons Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 (US). Tel: 603-862-2520, Fax: 603-862-4278, E- mail:ndc@unh.edu. * This work was supported by grants R37-GM20194 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (N.D.C.), DBI 9876582 from the National Science Foundation (T.M.L.) and “Biologia strutturale e dinamica molecolare di proteine redox” from the Ministero dell’Università e Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (E.C.) Copyright 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. JBC Papers in Press. Published on May 16, 2002 as Manuscript M202094200 by guest on December 23, 2016 http://www.jbc.org/ Downloaded from