abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) catalyses the degradation of heme to biliverdin, carbon monoxide (CO) and ferrous iron via three successive monooxygenase reactions, using electrons provided by NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) and oxygen molecules. For cleavage of the oxaporphyrin ring of ferrous α-verdoheme, an intermediate ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Sato H,Higashimoto Y,Sakamoto H,Sugishima M,Shimokawa C,Harada J,Palmer G,Noguchi M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of π-arene-Ru(II)-chloroquine complexes with human serum albumin (HSA), apotransferrin and holotransferrin have been studied by circular dichroism (CD) and UV-Visible spectroscopies, together with isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The data for [Ru(η(6)-p-cymene)(CQ)(H(2)O)Cl]PF(6) (1), [Ru(η(6)-...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Martínez A,Suárez J,Shand T,Magliozzo RS,Sánchez-Delgado RA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gallium(III) complex of a new tripodal 3-hydroxy-4-pyridinone (3,4-HP) chelator has been studied in terms of its physico-chemical and in vivo properties aimed at potential application as probe for nuclear imaging. In particular, based on spectrophotometric titrations, the hexa-coordinated (1:1) gallium complex app...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Chaves S,Mendonça AC,Marques SM,Prata MI,Santos AC,Martins AF,Geraldes CF,Santos MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterodinuclear (Ru(II), Co(III)) metal polypyridyl complex [(phen)(2)Ru(bpibH(2))Co(phen)(2)](5+) {phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, bpibH(2) = 1,4-bis([1,10]phebanthroline-[5,6-d]imidazol-2-yl)-benzene} has been designed and synthesized. The comparative study on the interactions of the Ru(II)-Co(III) complex with calf t...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Liang X,Zou X,Tan L,Zhu W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new complexes [(Etdpa)MnCl(2)] and [(Adpa)Mn(Cl)(H(2)O)] (Etdpa = ethyl bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amino-2-propionate; Adpa = bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amino-2-propionic acid) were synthesized and characterized by spectral methods. The crystal structure of [(Etdpa)MnCl(2)] shows that the Mn(II) atom is coordinated by three N a...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Qiu-Yun C,Dong-Fang Z,Juan H,Wen-Jie G,Jing G

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of thiosemicarbazones (TSCs) with [Au(I)(THT)Cl], THT=tetrahydrothiophene, has been investigated. The resulting gold(I) complexes have been characterized by a range of spectroscopic techniques: NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, microanalysis and infrared spectroscopy. The in vitro antimalarial data for...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Khanye SD,Smith GS,Lategan C,Smith PJ,Gut J,Rosenthal PJ,Chibale K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deposition of beta sheets of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) in pancreatic tissue is implicated in the aetiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). IAPP is cleaved from its precursor protein, pro-islet amyloid polypeptide (ProIAPP) and incomplete cleavage results in ProIAPP(1-48), which is found co-deposited with IA...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Exley C,House E,Patel T,Wu L,Fraser PE

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal structures of nitric oxide synthases (NOS) isoforms have shown the presence of a strongly conserved heme active-site residue, Tyr588 (numbering for rat neuronal NOS, nNOS). Preliminary biochemical studies have highlighted its importance in the binding and oxidation to NO of natural substrates L-Arg and N(omega...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Giroud C,Moreau M,Sagami I,Shimizu T,Frapart Y,Mansuy D,Boucher JL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the use of a non-innocent ligand as a surrogate of the anchored [4Fe4S] cubane in a synthetic mimic of the [FeFe] hydrogenase active site. Reaction of 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino) maleic anhydride (bma) with [Fe(2)(CO)(6)(mu-pdt)] (propanedithiolate, pdt=S(CH(2))(3)S) in ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Si Y,Charreteur K,Capon JF,Gloaguen F,Pétillon FY,Schollhammer P,Talarmin J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin, the human iron transport protein, binds Ti(IV) even more tightly than it binds Fe(III). However, the fate of titanium bound to transferrin is not well understood. Here we present results which address the fate of titanium once bound to transferrin. We have determined the redox potentials for a series of T...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Parker Siburt CJ,Lin EM,Brandt SJ,Tinoco AD,Valentine AM,Crumbliss AL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary systems of copper(II) complexes with adenosine 5'-triphosphate, O-phospho L-serine and with equimolar or excessive amount of spermine have been investigated. The studies have been performed in aqueous solution. Types of complexes and the overall stability constants have been determined using the potentiomet...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Jastrzab R,Runka T,Skowronek P,Lomozik L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrathiomolybdate (TTM) is a powerful and selective copper (Cu) chelator that is used as a therapeutic agent for Wilson disease. TTM is the sole agent that can remove Cu bound to metallothionein (MT) in the livers of Long-Evans rats with a cinnamon-like coat color (LEC rats). However, the administration of excess TTM...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Ogra Y,Miyayama T,Anan Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexation of uranium(VI) to variant functional groups of the highly phosphorylated protein phosvitin in aqueous solution was investigated by attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR FT-IR) spectroscopy. For the verification of the affinity of the actinyl ions to carboxyl and phosphate groups ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Li B,Raff J,Barkleit A,Bernhard G,Foerstendorf H

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nickel(II) complexes with the first-generation quinolone antibacterial agent flumequine in the presence or absence of nitrogen donor heterocyclic ligands (4-benzylpyridine, pyridine, 2,2'-bipyridine or 1,10-phenanthroline) have been structurally characterized by physicochemical and spectroscopic techniques. The experi...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Skyrianou KC,Perdih F,Turel I,Kessissoglou DP,Psomas G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the synthesis and toxicity of a series of rhenium(I) tricarbonyl complexes incorporating the trisaminomethylethane (TAME) ligand. Compounds with the (TAME)Re(CO)(3)(+) cation were synthesized via several routes, including by use of Re(CO)(5)X precursors as well as the aqueous cation Re(CO)(3)(H(2)O)(3)(+). S...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Binkley SL,Barone NV,Underwood AC,Milsted A,Franklin BR,Herrick RS,Ziegler CJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Pt(L)(2)(ox)] (1), [Pt(2-OMeL)(2)(ox)] (2), [Pt(3-OMeL)(2)(ox)] (3), [Pt(2,3-diOMeL)(2)(ox)] (4), [Pt(2,4-diOMeL)(2)(ox)] (5), [Pt(3,4-diOMeL)(2)(ox)] (6) and [Pt(3,5-diOMeL)(2)(ox)].4H(2)O (7) platinum(II) oxalato (ox) complexes were synthesized using the reaction of potassium bis(oxalato)platinate(II) dihydrate wit...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Starha P,Trávnícek Z,Popa I

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese peroxidase (MnP) is an extracellular heme enzyme produced by the lignin-degrading white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium. MnP catalyzes the peroxide-dependent oxidation of Mn(II) to Mn(III). The Mn(III) is released from the enzyme in complex with oxalate, enabling the oxalate-Mn(III) complex to serve a...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Sundaramoorthy M,Gold MH,Poulos TL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and characterization of ruthenium compounds of the type [RuCl(2)(NO)(dppp)(L)]PF(6) [dppp=1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane; L=pyridine, 4-methylpyridine, 4-phenylpyridine and dimethyl sulfoxide] are described. The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, UV/Vis and infrared spectroscopy, cycl...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Golfeto CC,Von Poelhsitz G,Selistre-de-Araújo HS,de Araujo MP,Ellena J,Castellano EE,Lopes LG,Moreira IS,Batista AA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron(III) complexes [Fe(L)(2)]Cl (1-3), where L is monoanionic N-salicylidene-arginine (sal-argH for 1), hydroxynaphthylidene-arginine (nap-argH for 2) and N-salicylidene-lysine (sal-lysH for 3), were prepared and their DNA binding and photo-induced DNA cleavage activity studied. Complex 3 as its hexafluorophosphate s...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Ameerunisha Begum MS,Saha S,Nethaji M,Chakravarty AR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of zinc(II) chloride, cadmium(II) chloride and bromide with 3-thiophene aldehyde thiosemicarbazone leads to the formation of a series of new complexes. They have been characterized by spectroscopic studies: infrared, (1)H NMR, and electronic spectra. The crystal structures of the compound [ZnCl(2)(3TTSCH)...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Alomar K,Landreau A,Kempf M,Khan MA,Allain M,Bouet G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used low-temperature (77K) resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy as a probe of the electronic and molecular structure to investigate weak pi-pi interactions between the metal ion-coordinated His imidazoles and aromatic side chains in the second coordination sphere of blue copper proteins. For this purpose, the RR ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Fitzpatrick MB,Obara Y,Fujita K,Brown DE,Dooley DM,Kohzuma T,Czernuszewicz RS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is frequently a growth-limiting nutrient due to its propensity to interact with oxygen to form insoluble precipitates and, therefore, biological systems have evolved specialized uptake mechanisms to obtain this essential nutrient. Many pathogenic bacteria are capable of obtaining stringently sequestered iron from...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Beasley FC,Heinrichs DE

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of Zn(2+) ion on interactions of flavonols galangin (Gal), kaempferol (Kae), quercetin (Que) and myricetin (Myr) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) in aqueous solution were studied by fluorescence quenching technique. The results exhibited that Zn(2+) ion affected significantly the interactions and the effect ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Cao S,Jiang X,Chen J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel ruthenium(II) compound, trans-cis-cis-[Ru(II)Cl(2)(DMSO)(2)(2-amino-5-methyl-thiazole)(2)], (I), PMRu52 hereafter, that may be obtained from the previously described (cis and trans)-[Ru(II)Cl(2)(DMSO)(4)] complexes, was designed, synthesized and characterised. The single crystal X-ray structure shows a roughly...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Mura P,Camalli M,Casini A,Gabbiani C,Messori L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, antineoplastic activities of protein-conjugated silver sulfide nano-crystals with different shapes were described in detail. Transmission electron microscope analysis demonstrated that stable and well-disperse protein-conjugated silver sulfide nano-particles, nano-rods, and nano-wires could be prepared ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Wang HJ,Yang L,Yang HY,Wang K,Yao WG,Jiang K,Huang XL,Zheng Z

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new anticancer-active platinum(II) compound [Pt(A9pyp)(dmso)(cbdca)], containing the E-1-(9-anthryl)-3-(2-pyridyl)-2-propenone ligand (abbreviated as A9pyp) has been synthesized by the replacement of the anionic chloride ligands in cis-[Pt(A9pyp)(dmso)Cl(2)] by the dianionic chelating cyclobutanedicarboxylate ligand...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Marqués-Gallego P,Contaldi S,den Dulk H,Monari M,Brouwer J,Jaehde U,Kalayda GV,Reedijk J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the broad spectrum of biological activities of flavonoids, their target molecules in the cell are intensively studied. We examined the interactions of the flavonoid quercetin (Q) and its lanthanum complex (QLa(3+)) with very recently isolated plant viral satellite (sat) dsRNA. Comparison of the cumulative bindi...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Rusak G,Piantanida I,Bretschneider S,Ludwig-Müller J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up-regulated expression of amyloid precursor protein (APP) occurs early in the cascade of events that leads to amyloid plaque formation in the human brain. APP gene up-regulation, mediated by activated NF-kappaB, is a response to stress from nM concentrations of aluminum ions, aluminum-disregulated iron ions, reactive...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Walton JR,Wang MX

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gulf War Syndrome is a multi-system disorder afflicting many veterans of Western armies in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. A number of those afflicted may show neurological deficits including various cognitive dysfunctions and motor neuron disease, the latter expression virtually indistinguishable from classical amyotrophic l...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Shaw CA,Petrik MS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming to investigate the use of tridentate ligands to develop new bireductively activated prodrugs, two N(2)O-donor ligands (HL1: [(2-hydroxybenzyl)(2-(imidazol-2-yl)ethyl)]amine; and HL2: [(2-hydroxybenzyl)(2-(pyridil-2-yl)ethyl]amine) were used to synthesize new Co(III) complexes, 1 and 2. Both complexes were chara...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Souza ET,Castro LC,Castro FA,do Canto Visentin L,Pinheiro CB,Pereira MD,de Paula Machado S,Scarpellini M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we present the synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterization of coordination compounds of cobalt(II), copper(II) and zinc(II) with 2-methylbenzimidazole (2mbz), 2-phenylbenzimidazole (2phbz), 2-chlorobenzimidazole (2cbz), 2-benzimidazolecarbamate (2cmbz) and 2-guanidinobenzimidazole (2gbz). Their cyt...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Sánchez-Guadarrama O,López-Sandoval H,Sánchez-Bartéz F,Gracia-Mora I,Höpfl H,Barba-Behrens N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new homo- and hetero-dinuclear complexes, [Cu(2)L(im)](ClO(4))(3)4H(2)O (1) and [CuZnL(im)](ClO(4))(3)4H(2)O (2) (where Im=1H-1midazole and L=3, 6, 9, 16, 19, 22-hexaaza-6, 19-bis(1H-imidazol-4-ylmethyl)tricycle[22, 2, 2, 2(11,14)]triaconta-1, 11, 13, 24, 27, 29-hexaene) were synthesized and characterized as model...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Yuan Q,Cai K,Qi ZP,Bai ZS,Su Z,Sun WY

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of copper(I) complexes of N,N'-disubstituted thioureas, [C(6)H(5)CONHCSNHR]Cu(I)Cl where R=C(6)H(5) (1a), 2-ClC(6)H(4) (2a), 3-ClC(6)H(4) (3a), 4-ClC(6)H(4) (4a), 2,3-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (5a), 2,4-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (6a), 2,5-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (7a), 2,6-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (8a), 3,4-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (9a) and 3,5-Cl(2)C(6)H(3) (10a) ...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Rauf MK,Imtiaz-ud-Din,Badshah A,Gielen M,Ebihara M,Vos Dd,Ahmed S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terpyridine-platinum(II) (TP-Pt(II)) complexes are known to possess DNA-intercalating activity and have been regarded as potential antitumor agents. However, their cytotoxic mechanism remains unclear. To investigate the possible mechanism, a series of TP-Pt(II) compounds were prepared and their biological activities a...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Lo YC,Ko TP,Su WC,Su TL,Wang AH

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospray mass spectrometry (ESMS) of certain peptides labelled with (99m)Tc via hydrazinonicotinamide (HYNIC) with tricine as co-ligand shows one Tc-bound tricine, whereas typically two are observed. We speculated that this was due to coordination of a neighbouring histidine (His) or glutamate (Glu). To investigat...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Surfraz MB,King R,Mather SJ,Biagini S,Blower PJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is an essential element for nutrition as well as for the proper development and function of brain cells, and its traces are present in a wide range of foods. It is a constituent of many enzyme systems and is an integral part of insulin and of the active site of intracellular enzymes. However, excessive accumulati...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Suwalsky M,Novoa V,Villena F,Sotomayor CP,Aguilar LF,Ronowska A,Szutowicz A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new mononuclear peroxo complexes of tungsten of the formula (gu)(2)[WO(2)(O(2))(2)] (1) and (gu)[WO(O(2))(2)(quin-2-c)] (2a) (where gu(+)=guanidinium ion, CN(3)H(6)(+) and quin-2-c=quinoline-2-carboxylate ion) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, Raman, UV-visible and (1)H NMR s...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Maniatakou A,Karaliota S,Mavri M,Raptopoulou C,Terzis A,Karaliota A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper(II) complexes of the peptide fragment (Dpl122-130) encompassing the sequence 122-130 of human doppel protein were characterized by potentiometric, UV-Visible, CD and EPR spectroscopic methods. An analogous peptide, in which the aspartate residue was substituted by an asparagine amino acid, was synthesized in or...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Mendola DL,Magrì A,Hansson O,Bonomo RP,Rizzarelli E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine nitration, protein oxidation and lipid peroxidation are nitrative/oxidative modification of protein and lipids. In this paper, a BSA (bovine serum albumin)-lecithin liposome system was used to study the nature of different forms of iron, including methemoglobin, hemin and ferric citrate, in catalyzing...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Gao P,Song Y,Li H,Gao Z

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ternary systems of copper(II) complexes with phosphoserine and adenosine 5'-monophosphate or adenosine 5'-diphosphate or adenosine 5'-triphosphate have been investigated. The studies have been performed in aqueous solution using the potentiometric method with computer analysis of the data, (13)C and (31)P nuclear magn...

journal_title：Journal of inorganic biochemistry

authors： Jastrzab R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00