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Mattioli EJ, Cipriani B, Zerbetto F, Marforio TD, Calvaresi M. Interaction of Au(III) with amino acids: a vade mecum for medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology. J Mater Chem B 2024; 12:5162-5170. [PMID: 38687242 DOI: 10.1039/d4tb00204k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Au(III) is highly reactive. At odds with its reduced counterpart, Au(I), it is hardly present in structural databases. And yet, it is the starting reactant to form gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) and the constitutive component of a new class of drugs. Its reactivity is a world apart from that of the iso-electronic Pt(II) species. Rather than DNA, it targets proteins. Its interaction with amino acid residues is manifold. It can strongly interact with the residue backbones, amino acid side chains and protein ends, it can form appropriate complexes whose stabilization energy reaches up to more than 40 kcal mol-1, it can affect the pKa of amino acid residues, and it can promote charge transfer from the residues to the amount that it is reduced. Here, quantum chemical calculations provide quantitative information on all the processes where Au(III) can be involved. A myriad of structural arrangements are examined in order to determine the strongest interactions and quantify the amount of charge transfer between protonated and deprotonated residues and Au(III). The calculated interaction energies of the amino acid side chains with Au(III) quantitatively reproduce the experimental tendency of Au(III) to interact with selenocysteine, cysteine and histidine and negatively charged amino acids such as Glu and Asp. Also, aromatic residues such as tyrosine and tryptophan strongly interact with Au(III). In proteins, basic pH plays a role in the deprotonation of cysteine, lysine and tyrosine and strongly increases the binding affinity of Au(III) toward these amino acids. The amino acid residues in the protein can also trigger the reduction of Au(III) ions. Sulfur-containing amino acids (cysteine and methionine) and selenocysteine provide almost one electron to Au(III) upon binding. Tyrosine also shows a considerable tendency to act as a reductant. Other amino acids, commonly identified in Au-protein adducts, such as Ser, Trp, Thr, Gln, Glu, Asn, Asp, Lys, Arg and His, possess a notable reducing power toward Au(III). These results and their discussion form a vade mecum that can find application in medicinal chemistry and nanotech applications of Au(III).
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- Edoardo Jun Mattioli
- Dipartimento di Chimica ''G. Ciamician'', Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ''G. Ciamician'', Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ''G. Ciamician'', Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ''G. Ciamician'', Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ''G. Ciamician'', Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, via F. Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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Wang K, Yang X, Xiao Y, Cao Z, Zhang S, Zhang P, Huang S. Simultaneous Identification of Major Thyroid Hormones by a Nickel Immobilized Biological Nanopore. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:305-311. [PMID: 38149630 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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Thyroid hormones (THs) are a variety of iodine-containing hormones that demonstrate critical physiological impacts on cellular activities. The assessment of thyroid function and the diagnosis of thyroid disorders require accurate measurement of TH levels. However, largely due to their structural similarities, the simultaneous discrimination of different THs is challenging. Nanopores, single-molecule sensors with a high resolution, are suitable for this task. In this paper, a hetero-octameric Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) nanopore containing a single nickel ion immobilized to the pore constriction has enabled simultaneous identification of five representative THs including l-thyroxine (T4), 3,3',5-triiodo-l-thyronine (T3), 3,3',5'-triiodo-l-thyronine (rT3), 3,5-diiodo-l-thyronine (3,5-T2) and 3,3'-diiodo-l-thyronine (3,3'-T2). To automate event classification and avoid human bias, a machine learning algorithm was also developed, reporting an accuracy of 99.0%. This sensing strategy is also applied in the analysis of TH in a real human serum environment, suggesting its potential use in a clinical diagnosis.
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- Kefan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
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Wang K, Zhang S, Zhou X, Yang X, Li X, Wang Y, Fan P, Xiao Y, Sun W, Zhang P, Li W, Huang S. Unambiguous discrimination of all 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their modifications by nanopore. Nat Methods 2024; 21:92-101. [PMID: 37749214 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02021-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Natural proteins are composed of 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their post-translational modifications (PTMs). However, due to the lack of a suitable nanopore sensor that can simultaneously discriminate between all 20 amino acids and their PTMs, direct sequencing of protein with nanopores has not yet been realized. Here, we present an engineered hetero-octameric Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) nanopore containing a sole Ni2+ modification. It enables full discrimination of all 20 proteinogenic amino acids and 4 representative modified amino acids, Nω,N'ω-dimethyl-arginine (Me-R), O-acetyl-threonine (Ac-T), N4-(β-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyl)-asparagine (GlcNAc-N) and O-phosphoserine (P-S). Assisted by machine learning, an accuracy of 98.6% was achieved. Amino acid supplement tablets and peptidase-digested amino acids from peptides were also analyzed using this strategy. This capacity for simultaneous discrimination of all 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their PTMs suggests the potential to achieve protein sequencing using this nanopore-based strategy.
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- Kefan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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Dattatray Shinde S, Kumar Behera S, Kulkarni N, Dewangan B, Sahu B. Bifunctional backbone modified squaramide dipeptides as amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem 2024; 97:117538. [PMID: 38056379 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2023.117538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative condition with complex pathophysiology. Aggregated amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide plaques and higher concentrations of bio-metals such as copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and iron (Fe) are the most significant hallmarks of AD observed in the brains of AD patients. Therefore simultaneous inhibition of Aβ peptide aggregation and reduction of metal stress may serve as an effective therapeutic approach for treating Alzheimer's disease. A series of bifunctional dipeptides bearing squaramide backbone were synthesized and investigated for their ability to chelate metal ions and prevent Aβ peptide aggregation. Dipeptides with Valine (V) and Threonine (T) substitutions at the C-terminus exhibited preferential chelation with Cu(II), Zn(II), and Fe(III) metal ions in the presence of other metal ions. They were also found to inhibit the aggregation of Aβ peptide in-vitro. A further molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study demonstrated that these two dipeptides interact with the Aβ peptide in the hydrophobic core (KLVFF) region. Circular dichroism (CD) study revealed slight conformational change in the Aβ peptide upon the interactions with dipeptides. Apart from metal chelation and inhibition of Aβ peptide aggregation, the selected dipeptides were found to possess anti-oxidant properties. Therefore, the squaramide backbone-modified dipeptides may serve as an active bifunctional scaffold towards the development of new chemical entities for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Suchita Dattatray Shinde
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382355, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382355, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382355, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382355, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382355, India.
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Esteves CIC, Raposo MMM, Costa SPG. New Amino Acid-Based Thiosemicarbazones and Hydrazones: Synthesis and Evaluation as Fluorimetric Chemosensors in Aqueous Mixtures. Molecules 2023; 28:7256. [PMID: 37959675 PMCID: PMC10650509 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28217256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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Bearing in mind the interest in the development and application of amino acids/peptides as bioinspired systems for sensing, a series of new phenylalanine derivatives bearing thiosemicarbazone and hydrazone units at the side chain were synthesised and evaluated as fluorimetric chemosensors for ions. Thiosemicarbazone and hydrazone moieties were chosen because they are considered both proton-donor and proton-acceptor, which is an interesting feature in the design of chemosensors. The obtained compounds were tested for the recognition of organic and inorganic anions (such as AcO-, F-, Cl-, Br-, I-, ClO4-, CN-, NO3-, BzO-, OH-, H2PO4- and HSO4-) and of alkaline, alkaline-earth, and transition metal cations, (such as Na+, K+, Cs+, Ag+, Cu+, Cu2+, Ca2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Pb2+, Pd2+, Ni2+, Hg2+, Zn2+, Fe2+, Fe3+ and Cr3+) in acetonitrile and its aqueous mixtures in varying ratios via spectrofluorimetric titrations. The results indicate that there is a strong interaction via the donor N, O and S atoms at the side chain of the various phenylalanines, with higher sensitivity for Cu2+, Fe3+ and F- in a 1:2 ligand-ion stoichiometry. The photophysical and metal ion-sensing properties of these phenylalanines suggest that they might be suitable for incorporation into peptide chemosensory frameworks.
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- Centre of Chemistry, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; (C.I.C.E.); (M.M.M.R.)
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Jung W, Lee DY, Moon E, Jon S. Nanoparticles derived from naturally occurring metal chelators for theranostic applications. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2022; 191:114620. [PMID: 36379406 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2022.114620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Metals are indispensable for the activities of all living things, from single-celled organisms to higher organisms, including humans. Beyond their intrinsic quality as metal ions, metals help creatures to maintain requisite biological processes by forming coordination complexes with endogenous ligands that are broadly distributed in nature. These types of naturally occurring chelating reactions are found through the kingdoms of life, including bacteria, plants and animals. Mimicking these naturally occurring coordination complexes with intrinsic biocompatibility may offer an opportunity to develop nanomedicine toward clinical applications. Herein, we introduce representative examples of naturally occurring coordination complexes in a selection of model organisms and highlight such bio-inspired metal-chelating nanomaterials for theranostic applications.
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- Wonsik Jung
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Center for Precision Bio-Nanomedicine, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea; Translational Biomedical Research Group, Biomedical Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Science, Asan Medical Center, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Center for Precision Bio-Nanomedicine, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Center for Precision Bio-Nanomedicine, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
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Cruz-Hernández AE, Colín-García M, Ortega-Gutiérrez F, Mateo-Martí E. Komatiites as Complex Adsorption Surfaces for Amino Acids in Prebiotic Environments, a Prebiotic Chemistry Essay. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:1788. [PMID: 36362942 PMCID: PMC9696357 DOI: 10.3390/life12111788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Komatiites represent the oldest known terrestrial rocks, and their composition has been cataloged as the closest to that of the first terrestrial crust after the cooling of the magma ocean. These rocks could have been present in multiple environments on the early Earth and served as concentrators of organic molecules. In this study, the adsorption of five amino acids (glycine, lysine, histidine, arginine, and aspartic acid) on a natural komatiite, a simulated komatiite, and the minerals olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase were analyzed under three different pH values: acid pH (5.5), natural pH of the aqueous solution of each amino acid and alkaline pH (11). Adsorption experiments were performed in solid-liquid suspensions and organic molecules were analyzed by spectrophotometry. The main objective of this essay was to determine if the complex surfaces could have participated as concentrators of amino acids in scenarios of the primitive Earth and if the adsorption responds to the change of charge of the molecules. The results showed that komatiite is capable of adsorbing amino acids in different amounts depending on the experimental conditions. In total, 75 systems were analyzed that show different adsorptions, which implies that different interactions are involved, particularly in relation to the type of amino acid, the type of solid material and the conditions of the medium.
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- Abigail E. Cruz-Hernández
- Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
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- Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) CSIC-INTA, Carretera de Ajalvir km 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
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Gildenast H, van Terwingen S, Wendland L, Niclas Neumann J, Kalf I, Fränzl H, Englert U. Zwitterion coordination to hard cations: synthesis and characterization of betaine coordination compounds with divalent Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba and of trivalent Y, La and Pr. Inorganica Chim Acta 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2022.121283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Charnock HM, Pickering GJ, Kemp BS. The Maillard reaction in traditional method sparkling wine. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:979866. [PMID: 36090075 PMCID: PMC9459140 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.979866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Maillard reaction between sugars and amino acids, peptides, or proteins generates a myriad of aroma compounds through complex and multi-step reaction pathways. While the Maillard has been primarily studied in the context of thermally processed foods, Maillard-associated products including thiazoles, furans, and pyrazines have been identified in aged sparkling wines, with associated bready, roasted, and caramel aromas. Sparkling wines produced in the bottle-fermented traditional method (Méthode Champenoise) have been the primary focus of studies related to Maillard-associated compounds in sparkling wine, and these wines undergo two sequential fermentations, with the second taking place in the final wine bottle. Due to the low temperature (15 ± 3°C) and low pH (pH 3-4) conditions during production and aging, we conclude that Maillard interactions may not proceed past intermediate stages. Physicochemical factors that affect the Maillard reaction are considered in the context of sparkling wine, particularly related to pH-dependent reaction pathways and existing literature pertaining to low temperature and/or low pH Maillard activity. A focus on the origins and composition of precursor species (amino acids and sugars) in sparkling wines is presented, as well as the potential role of metal ions in accelerating the Maillard reaction. Understanding the contributions of individual physicochemical factors to the Maillard reaction in sparkling wine enables a clearer understanding of reaction pathways and sensory outcomes. Advancements in analytical techniques for monitoring the Maillard reaction are also described, and important areas of future research on this topic are identified.
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- Hannah M. Charnock
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
- Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
- National Wine and Grape Industry Center, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
- Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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Seijas LE, Belandria LM, Vivas PJ, Guillén M, Burgos JL, Fitch AN, Wright J, Rincón L, Delgado GE, Mora AJ. Two nickel (II) complexes with side chain isomeric ligands: L-leucine and L-isoleucine to study non-covalent interactions and metal-ligand bonding. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.132898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hasan MM, Shahriar I, Ali MA, Halim M, Ehsan MQ. Experimental and computational studies on Transition metals Interaction with Leucine and Isoleucine. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.133862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Isaeva VA, Molchanov AS, Shishkin MV, Sharnin VA. Stability of Cobalt(II) Complexes with Glycinate Ion as a Function of Water–Dimethyl Sulfoxide Solvent Composition. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023622050084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Huang TT, Li ZX, Shi XN, Yue Q, Gao EQ. Homochiral coordination polymers based on proline-derivative: structures, magnetic properties, and selective detection of Cr2O72− anion. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.122894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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π-π Stacking Interaction of Metal Phenoxyl Radical Complexes. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27031135. [PMID: 35164397 PMCID: PMC8840625 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27031135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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π-π stacking interaction is well-known to be one of the weak interactions. Its importance in the stabilization of protein structures and functionalization has been reported for various systems. We have focused on a single copper oxidase, galactose oxidase, which has the π-π stacking interaction of the alkylthio-substituted phenoxyl radical with the indole ring of the proximal tryptophan residue and catalyzes primary alcohol oxidation to give the corresponding aldehyde. This stacking interaction has been considered to stabilize the alkylthio-phenoxyl radical, but further details of the interaction are still unclear. In this review, we discuss the effect of the π-π stacking interaction of the alkylthio-substituted phenoxyl radical with an indole ring.
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Tewari M, Pareek P, Kumar S. Correlating Amino Acid Interaction with Graphene-Based Materials Regulating Cell Function. J Indian Inst Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s41745-021-00272-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Tin Carboxylate Complexes of Natural Bacteriochlorin for Combined Photodynamic and Chemotherapy of Cancer è. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222413563. [PMID: 34948372 PMCID: PMC8708526 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is currently one of the most promising methods of cancer treatment. However, this method has some limitations, including a small depth of penetration into biological tissues, the low selectivity of accumulation, and hypoxia of the tumor tissues. These disadvantages can be overcome by combining PDT with other methods of treatment, such as radiation therapy, neutron capture therapy, chemotherapy, etc. In this work, potential drugs were obtained for the first time, the molecules of which contain both photodynamic and chemotherapeutic pharmacophores. A derivative of natural bacteriochlorophyll a with a tin IV complex, which has chemotherapeutic activity, acts as an agent for PDT. This work presents an original method for obtaining agents of combined action, the structure of which is confirmed by various physicochemical methods of analysis. The method of molecular modeling was used to investigate the binding of the proposed drugs to DNA. In vitro biological tests were carried out on several lines of tumor cells: Hela, A549, S37, MCF7, and PC-3. It was shown that the proposed conjugates of binary action for some cell lines had a dark cytotoxicity that was significantly higher (8–10 times) than the corresponding metal complexes of amino acids, which was explained by the targeted chemotherapeutic action of the tin (IV) complex due to chlorin. The greatest increase in efficiency relative to the initial dipropoxy-BPI was found for the conjugate with lysine as a chelator of the tin cation relative to cell lines, with the following results: S-37 increased 3-fold, MCF-7 3-fold, and Hela 2.4-fold. The intracellular distribution of the obtained agents was also studied by confocal microscopy and showed a diffuse granular distribution with predominant accumulation in the near nuclear region.
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Amino acid-metal phosphate hybrid nanoflowers (AaHNFs): their preparation, characterization and anti-oxidant capacities. Polym Bull (Berl) 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00289-021-03973-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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van Terwingen S, Wendland L, Kalf I, Fränzl H, Englert U. Zwitterion coordination to configurationally flexible d
10 cations: synthesis and characterization of tetrakis(betaine) complexes of divalent Zn, Cd, and Hg. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION B-A JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1515/znb-2021-0101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The d
10 ions MII (M = Zn, Cd, Hg) and four equivalents of the neutral zwitterion trimethylglycine (betaine, bet) aggregate to discrete six-coordinated cationic complexes. With nitrate as counter anions, solids of the composition [M(bet)4](NO3)2·H2O are obtained. Their structural characterization reveals close relationship: they crystallize in metrically similar unit cells adopting three different subgroups of a hypothetical aristotype. In all cases, the divalent cations exhibit a strongly distorted coordination sphere in which two betaine ligands bind with both carboxylato O atoms and the other two with only one oxygen to the cation. Non-coordinating O atoms of different betaine ligands act as hydrogen bond acceptors towards co-crystallized water molecules. At least for the Pearson-soft HgII cations, this coordination is unexpected: to the best of our knowledge, HgII complexes with four carboxylato ligands have not yet been characterized. Without the necessity for charge balancing, the composition of zwitterion complexes is dominated by steric requirements and possibly by competition with alternative dipole molecules such as solvent water.
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany
- Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University , Taiyuan , Shanxi 030006 , People’s Republic of China
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Isaeva VA, Sharnin VA, Grazhdan KV, Kipyatkov KA. Thermodynamics of Complexation Reactions between d-Metal Ions and Glycine and Glycylglycine Anions in Water–Organic Solvents. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024421060169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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COSMO-RS prediction and experimental investigation of amino acid ionic liquid-based deep eutectic solvents for copper removal. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.115884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Sánchez-Lara E, García-García A, González-Vergara E, Cepeda J, Rodríguez-Diéguez A. Magneto-structural correlations of cyclo-tetravanadates functionalized with mixed-ligand copper(ii) complexes. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj06004f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Bimetallic materials based on tetravanadate anions and mixed ligand copper(ii) complexes were readily synthesized under non-hydrothermal conditions. The compounds show interesting structural and magnetic diversity mediated by copper symmetry.
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- Eduardo Sánchez-Lara
- Instituto de Ciencias
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
- Colonia San Manuel
- Puebla
- Mexico
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias
- Universidad de Granada
- Avda. Fuentenueva
- 18071 Granada
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- Departamento de Química Aplicada
- Facultad de Química
- Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
- 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián
- Spain
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica
- Facultad de Ciencias
- Universidad de Granada
- Avda. Fuentenueva
- 18071 Granada
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Zhao J, Wang L, Wei X, Li K, Liu J. Food-Grade Expression and Characterization of a Dextranase from Chaetomium gracile Suitable for Sugarcane Juice Clarification. Chem Biodivers 2020; 18:e2000797. [PMID: 33245200 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202000797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The microbial production of dextranase using cheap carbon sources is beneficial to solve the economic loss caused by the accumulation of dextran in syrup. A food-grade microbial cell factory was constructed by introducing the dextranase encoding gene DEX from Chaetomium gracile to the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis, and the antibiotic resistance marker gene was subsequently deleted via the Cre/loxP strategy. The dual-promoter system with a sequentially arranged constitutive P43 promoter resulted in an 85 % increase in DEX expression. Under the optimal fermentation conditions of 10 g/L maltose, 15 g/L casein, 1 g/L Na2 HPO4 , 1 g/L FeSO4 and 8 g/L NaCl, DEX activity was increased from 2.625 to 64.34 U/mL. Recombinant DEX was purified 5.98-fold with a recovery ratio of 26.67 % and specific activity of 3935.02 U/mg. Enzyme activity was optimal at 55 °C and pH 5.0 and remained 80.34 % and 71.36 % of the initial activity at 55 °C and pH 4.0 after 60 min, respectively. The enzyme possessed high activity in the presence of Co2+ , while Ag+ showed the strongest inhibition ability. The optimal substrate was 20 g/L dextran T-2000. The findings could facilitate the low-cost, large-scale production of food-grade DEX for use in the sugar industry.
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- Jingyi Zhao
- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China.,Sugar Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
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- College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China.,Sugar Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, P. R. China
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Sun X, Sarteshnizi RA, Boachie RT, Okagu OD, Abioye RO, Pfeilsticker Neves R, Ohanenye IC, Udenigwe CC. Peptide-Mineral Complexes: Understanding Their Chemical Interactions, Bioavailability, and Potential Application in Mitigating Micronutrient Deficiency. Foods 2020; 9:E1402. [PMID: 33023157 PMCID: PMC7601898 DOI: 10.3390/foods9101402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 09/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Iron, zinc, and calcium are essential micronutrients that play vital biological roles to maintain human health. Thus, their deficiencies are a public health concern worldwide. Mitigation of these deficiencies involves micronutrient fortification of staple foods, a strategy that can alter the physical and sensory properties of foods. Peptide-mineral complexes have been identified as promising alternatives for mineral-fortified functional foods or mineral supplements. This review outlines some of the methods used in the determination of the mineral chelating activities of food protein-derived peptides and the approaches for the preparation, purification and identification of mineral-binding peptides. The structure-activity relationship of mineral-binding peptides and the potential use of peptide-mineral complexes as functional food ingredients to mitigate micronutrient deficiency are discussed in relation to their chemical interactions, solubility, gastrointestinal digestion, absorption, and bioavailability. Finally, insights on the current challenges and future research directions in this area are provided.
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- Xiaohong Sun
- School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; (X.S.); (R.A.S.); (R.T.B.); (I.C.O.)
- College of Food and Biological Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar 161006, China
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- School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; (X.S.); (R.A.S.); (R.T.B.); (I.C.O.)
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-111, Iran
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- School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; (X.S.); (R.A.S.); (R.T.B.); (I.C.O.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada; (O.D.O.); (R.O.A.); (R.P.N.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada; (O.D.O.); (R.O.A.); (R.P.N.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada; (O.D.O.); (R.O.A.); (R.P.N.)
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- School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; (X.S.); (R.A.S.); (R.T.B.); (I.C.O.)
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- School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; (X.S.); (R.A.S.); (R.T.B.); (I.C.O.)
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada; (O.D.O.); (R.O.A.); (R.P.N.)
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Zhang R, Tian Y. Characteristics of natural biopolymers and their derivative as sorbents for chromium adsorption: a review. JOURNAL OF LEATHER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s42825-020-00038-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chromium is widely used in industry, and improper disposal of wastewater and industrial residues containing excessive chromium can contaminate water and soil, endangering both environmental and human health. Natural biopolymers and their derivatives have been investigated for removal of chromium (Cr) from wastewater. Cellulose, lignin, tannin, chitin, chitosan, and polypeptides are abundant in nature, and have high potential as adsorbents due to their easy access, low cost, and the recyclability of the captured heavy metals. In order to improve their mechanical strength, recyclability, specific surface area, binding site number, and adsorption rate as adsorbents, native materials have also been modified. This review discusses the source of chromium contamination and the main species of interest, as well as their toxicity. The structures of the aforementioned biopolymers were analyzed, and the adsorption mechanism of chromium and the main influencing factors on this process are discussed. The modification methods of various adsorbents and their adsorption effects on chromium are also detailed, and the developmental direction of research on the use of biopolymer adsorption remediation to control chromium contamination is discussed.
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Oshita H, Shimazaki Y. Recent Advances in One-Electron-Oxidized Cu II -Diphenoxide Complexes as Models of Galactose Oxidase: Importance of the Structural Flexibility in the Active Site. Chemistry 2020; 26:8324-8340. [PMID: 32056294 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The phenoxyl radical plays important roles in biological systems as cofactors in some metalloenzymes, such as galactose oxidase (GO) catalyzing oxidation of primary alcohols to give the corresponding aldehydes. Many metal(II)-phenoxyl radical complexes have hitherto been studied for understanding the detailed properties and reactivities of GO, and thus the nature of GO has gradually become clearer. However, the effects of the subtle geometric and electronic structural changes at the active site of GO, especially the structural change in the catalytic cycle and the effect of the second coordination sphere, have not been fully discussed yet. In this Review, we focus on further details of the model studies of GO and discuss the importance of the structural change at the active site of GO.
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- Hiromi Oshita
- Faculty of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Konan University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito, 310-8512, Japan
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Dolev N, Katz Z, Ludmer Z, Ullmann A, Brauner N, Goikhman R. Natural amino acids as potential chelators for soil remediation. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2020; 183:109140. [PMID: 31999998 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 12/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The soils contaminated by toxic metals are often remediated using EDTA and similar non-biodegradable chelators. Most chelators are in fact synthetic amino acid derivatives, whereas natural proteinogenic amino acids (PAAs) have not been systematically explored as remediation agents, despite their well-known metal chelating abilities and environmental benefits. Our study represents a comprehensive research exploring 16 structurally and functionally different PAAs as potential remediating agents, applied to 3 different heavy metal-contaminated samples. The study was mostly focused on extracting Cd, Cu, Ni, and Zn. The reaction parameters were screened and optimized. It was found that the efficiencies of extracting Cu, Ni, and Zn by Threonine, Aspartic acid and Histidine were comparable to those by EDTA, whereas non-polar side chain-containing PAAs demonstrated consistently lower PTM extraction rates compared to other PAAs. The sulfur-containing Cysteine appeared to be efficient to extract Cd (to some extent), Ni and Zn, but not Cu, due to chemical reasons. The structure-functional correlations were identified, described, and found to be independent on the specific samples. Possible molecular mechanisms of metal extraction from soils by PAAs are discussed. In contrast to EDTA, the soil-essential elements are almost not extracted by PAAs. This important feature of the PAAs, along with their availability, observed selectivity, competitive efficiency, non-toxicity and even fertilizing properties, make them particularly soil-friendly, and thus, potentially applicable chelators in certain remediation processes.
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- Noam Dolev
- Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
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Alfonso I, Solà J. Molecular Recognition of Zwitterions with Artificial Receptors. Chem Asian J 2020; 15:986-994. [PMID: 32017445 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201901789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Many biomolecules exist as internal ion pairs or zwitterions within a biologically relevant pH range. Despite their importance, the molecular recognition of this type of systems is specially challenging due to their strong solvation in aqueous media, and their trend to form folded or self-assembled structures by pairing of charges of different sign. In this Minireview, we will discuss the molecular recognition of zwitterions using non-natural, synthetic receptors. This contribution does not intend to make a full in-depth revision of the existing research in the field, but a personal overview with selected representative examples from the recent literature.
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- Ignacio Alfonso
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia Jordi, Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia Jordi, Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
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Berestova TV, Khursan SL, Mustafin AG. Experimental and theoretical substantiation of differences of geometric isomers of copper(II) α-amino acid chelates in ATR-FTIR spectra. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 229:117950. [PMID: 31862653 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Stereo and structural isomerism of the copper(II) chelate complexes define their biological activity. At the same time, the identification of the geometric isomers of such complexes is a nontrivial task of modern coordination chemistry. In the presented work we have studied the trans- and cis-isomers of chelates bis(S-valinato)copper(II), (R,S-valinato)copper(II) and other mixed ligand copper(II) amino acid complexes with the joint use of experimental by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and DFT simulations. Using DFT simulations (method M06/6 311+G(d)) the optimum conformers of the geometric isomers of copper(II) a-amino acid chelate complexes were found and their characteristic stretching vibrations were established in the mid-wave region of the IR spectra. The experimental ATR-FTIR bands of the compounds well agree with the theoretical estimates. Such a joint use allows to determine of cis- and trans-isomers of copper(II) N,O-amino acid chelates in the mid-wave region of the ATR-FTIR spectrum.
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- Ufa Institute of Chemistry, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation
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- Bashkir State University, Department of Chemistry, Ufa, Russian Federation; Ufa Institute of Chemistry, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation
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Effective Amendments on Cadmium, Arsenic, Chromium and Lead Contaminated Paddy Soil for Rice Safety. AGRONOMY-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10030359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Contamination of paddy soils with heavy metals and metalloids poses a risk to human health through the food chain. For safe agricultural production in contaminated paddy soils, “in situ” remediation through the unavailability of heavy metals from contaminated soils was investigated in order to develop cost-effective and eco-friendly approaches for soils contaminated with complexed heavy metals (HMs) and metalloids. In the present study, the effectiveness of different soil amendments, including sulfur-containing materials (hair or cysteine), manganese compounds as an antagonist and an oxidant, zeolite and iron oxide as adsorbents, and their combinations through coating or modification, was investigated by a pot experiment with rice plants and chemical analysis. Two levels of each treatment were made, termed X1 and X2, which were a single and double dose of each treatment respectively, while CaCO3 was used as a basal and pH enhancement amendment in all treatments to identify the best combination of the above treatments in the in situ remediation of heavy metals and metalloids. The rice plants were kept under the flooded condition. Results indicated that the bioavailability of As, Cd, Cr, and Pb in soil was significantly decreased with level two (X2) of iron oxide coated with modified hairs (T7X2) followed by level two (X2) of zeolite coated with KMnO4. The iron oxide coated with modified hairs (X2) decreased the concentrations of heavy metals and metalloids in rice plants in the order Pb ˃ As ˃ Cr ˃ Cd by 81%, 80%, 79% and 46%, respectively, followed by zeolite coated with KMnO4 (X2) in the order Pb ˃ As ˃ Cr ˃ Cd by 78%, 76%, 71%, and 31%, respectively, to control. The available content of these elements in soil was decreased in the order As > Cr> Pb > Cd by 67%, 66%, 64% and 60%, respectively, through iron oxide coated with modified hairs, followed by zeolite coated with KMnO4 in the order Pb ˃ Cr ˃ Cd ˃ As by 57%, 53%, 50%, and 46%, respectively, to control, which can explain the decreased bioavailability by these amendments. In addition, the maximum shoot dry and leaf area were noticed in the pots treated with iron oxide coated with modified hairs and zeolite coated with KMnO4. There is potential to use modified hairs (MHs) with iron oxide and KMnO4-coated zeolite as soil amendments to develop a cost-effective and efficient “in situ” remediation technology for As, Cd, Pb, and Cr-contaminated rice paddy soils, especially for the soils with complex contamination by Cd and As.
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Yang JJ, Huang YC, Chuang TH, Herr DR, Hsieh MF, Huang CJ, Huang CM. Cysteine-Capped Hydrogels Incorporating Copper as Effective Antimicrobial Materials against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E149. [PMID: 31973160 PMCID: PMC7074715 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8020149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) (MRSA) has become an alarming threat to public health, and infected soft tissue. Antibiotics are commonly used to treat skin infection with MRSA, but the inappropriate use of antibiotics runs a considerable risk of generating resistant S. aureus. In this study, we created a cysteine-capped hydrogel able to absorb and release copper, an ion with the capability of suppressing the growth of USA300, a community-acquired MRSA. The results of analysis of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed the binding of copper to a cysteine-capped hydrogel. The topical application of a cysteine-capped hydrogel binding with copper on USA300-infected skin wounds in the dorsal skin of Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) mice significantly enhanced wound healing, hindered the growth of USA300, and reduced the production of pro-inflammatory macrophage inflammatory protein 2-alpha (MIP-2) cytokine. Our work demonstrates a newly designed hydrogel that conjugates a cysteine molecule for copper binding. The cysteine-capped hydrogel can potentially chelate various antimicrobial metals as a novel wound dressing.
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- John Jackson Yang
- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan; (J.J.Y.); (Y.-C.H.)
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- Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan; (J.J.Y.); (Y.-C.H.)
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- Immunology Research Center, National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Zhunan, Miaoli County 35053, Taiwan;
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- Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City 32023, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan;
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan;
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Smokrović K, Đilović I, Matković-Čalogović D. The affinity of copper( ii) ions towards l-amino acids in the solid-state: a simple route towards mixed complexes. CrystEngComm 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0ce00687d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Competitive milling was successfully employed to determine the relative affinity of Cu(ii) ions towards selected l-amino acids (Asn, Gln, His, Phe, Pro, and Trp). Described process opens a simple route towards mixed coordination compounds.
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- Kristina Smokrović
- Faculty of Science
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Zagreb
- HR-10000 Zagreb
- Croatia
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- Faculty of Science
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Zagreb
- HR-10000 Zagreb
- Croatia
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Basu Baul TS, Chaurasiya A, Lyčka A, Rojas-León I, Höpfl H. Molecular aggregations of bicyclodioxazastannone produced from multicomponent reactions involving functionalized 2-hydroxybenzaldehydes, α- or β-amino acids and a dimethyltin precursor. J Organomet Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2019.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Oshita H, Suzuki T, Kawashima K, Abe H, Tani F, Mori S, Yajima T, Shimazaki Y. The effect of π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring with the coordinated phenoxyl radical in a nickel(ii)-salen type complex. Comparison with the corresponding Cu(ii) complex. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:12060-12069. [PMID: 31250847 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt01887e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In order to gain new insights into the effect of the π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring with the phenoxyl radical moiety as seen in the active form of galactose oxidase, we have prepared Ni(ii) complexes of a methoxy substituted salen-type ligand containing a pendent indole ring on the dinitrogen chelate backbone and characterized their one-electron oxidized forms. The X-ray crystal structure analysis and the other physicochemical experiments of the Ni(ii) complex revealed no significant intramolecular interaction of the indole ring with the coordination plane. On the other hand, the X-ray crystal structures of the oxidized Ni(ii) complex exhibited the π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring mainly with one of the two phenolate moieties. While the phenoxyl radical electron was delocalized on the two phenolate moieties in the Ni(ii)-salen coordination plane, the phenolate moiety in close contact with the indole moiety was considered to be the initial oxidation locus, indicating that the indole ring interacted with the phenoxyl radical by π-π stacking. The UV-vis-NIR spectrum of the oxidized Ni(ii) complex with the pendent indole ring was different from that of the complex without the side chain indole ring, but the differences were rather small in comparison with the oxidized Cu(ii)-salen complexes with the π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring. Such differences are due to the electronic structure difference, the localized radical electron on one of the phenolate moieties in the oxidized Cu(ii) complexes being more favorable for the π-π stacking interaction.
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- Hiromi Oshita
- Department of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Konan University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan.
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS), High Energy Accelerator Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan and Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (the Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan.
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Oshita H, Suzuki T, Kawashima K, Abe H, Tani F, Mori S, Yajima T, Shimazaki Y. π-π Stacking Interaction in an Oxidized Cu II -Salen Complex with a Side-Chain Indole Ring: An Approach to the Function of the Tryptophan in the Active Site of Galactose Oxidase. Chemistry 2019; 25:7649-7658. [PMID: 30912194 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In order to gain new insights into the effect of the π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring with the CuII -phenoxyl radical as seen in the active form of galactose oxidase, we have prepared a CuII complex of a methoxy-substituted salen-type ligand, containing a pendent indole ring on the dinitrogen chelate backbone, and characterized its one-electron-oxidized forms. The X-ray crystal structures of the oxidized CuII complex exhibited the π-π stacking interaction of the indole ring mainly with one of the two phenolate moieties. The phenolate moiety in close contact with the indole moiety showed the characteristic phenoxyl radical structural features, indicating that the indole ring favors the π-π stacking interaction with the phenoxyl radical. The UV/Vis/NIR spectra of the oxidized CuII complex with the pendent indole ring was significantly different from those of the complex without the side-chain indole ring, and the absorption and CD spectra exhibited a solvent dependence, which is in line with the phenoxyl radical-indole stacking interaction in solution. The other physicochemical results and theoretical calculations strongly support that the indole ring, as an electron donor, stabilizes the phenoxyl radical by the π-π stacking interaction.
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- Hiromi Oshita
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan.,Present address: Department of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Konan University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
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- Institute for Material Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University, Suita, Osaka, 564-8680, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, 310-8512, Japan
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Schönberger N, Braun R, Matys S, Lederer FL, Lehmann F, Flemming K, Pollmann K. Chromatopanning for the identification of gallium binding peptides. J Chromatogr A 2019; 1600:158-166. [PMID: 31040030 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.04.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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This study is concerned with a chromatography-based approach (Immobilized Metal Ion Affinity Chromatography) for the recovery of gallium binding peptide sequences from a recombinant phage display library. The here described methods apply the fundamental knowledge and methods of separation science and meet thereby the key requirement of the phage display technique of precise separation of target-binding bacteriophage clones from non-interacting bacteriophage during the biopanning. During the chromatopanning called process, a total of 101 bacteriophage clones were identified of which in subsequent binding experiments, phage clones expressing the peptide sequences TMHHAAIAHPPH, SQALSTSRQDLR and HTQHIQSDDHLA were characterized to bind >10 fold better to a target that presents immobilized gallium ions than control phage, displaying no peptide sequence. The performance of biopanning experiments in chromatographic systems is particularly suitable for demanding targets such as trivalent metal ions. We found, that the selection process benefits immensely from the stable immobilization of the target metal ions during the entire biopanning process as well as the complete recovery of well interacting bacteriophage clones. Among others, this was possible due to an enhanced monitoring of process conditions and fractionation of eluates.
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- Nora Schönberger
- Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy and Purest Materials, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Str. 32, 09599, Freiberg, Germany; Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany
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Rahman M, Mukherjee A, Kovalev IS, Kopchuk DS, Zyryanov GV, Tsurkan MV, Majee A, Ranu BC, Charushin VN, Chupakhin ON, Santra S. Recent Advances on Diverse Decarboxylative Reactions of Amino Acids. Adv Synth Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201801331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Matiur Rahman
- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
- I. Ya. Postovskiy Institute of Organic SynthesisUral Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 22 S. Kovalevskoy Str. Yekaterinburg 620219 Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
- I. Ya. Postovskiy Institute of Organic SynthesisUral Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 22 S. Kovalevskoy Str. Yekaterinburg 620219 Russian Federation
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- Max Bergmann Center of BiomaterialsLeibniz Institute of Polymer Research Hohe Strasse 6 01069 Dresden Germany
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- Department of ChemistryVisva-Bharati (A Central University) Santiniketan 731235 India
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- Department of Organic ChemistryIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur Kolkata 700032 India
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
- I. Ya. Postovskiy Institute of Organic SynthesisUral Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 22 S. Kovalevskoy Str. Yekaterinburg 620219 Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
- I. Ya. Postovskiy Institute of Organic SynthesisUral Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 22 S. Kovalevskoy Str. Yekaterinburg 620219 Russian Federation
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- Department of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Engineering InstituteUral Federal University 19 Mira Str. 620002 Yekaterinburg Russian Federation
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Saikia G, Ahmed K, Rajkhowa C, Sharma M, Talukdar H, Islam NS. Polymer immobilized tantalum( v)–amino acid complexes as selective and recyclable heterogeneous catalysts for oxidation of olefins and sulfides with aqueous H 2O 2. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj04180j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Polymer supported peroxotantalate based heterogeneous catalysts served as highly efficient, selective and recyclable catalysts for alkene epoxidation and sulfide oxidation with green oxidant aqueous H2O2 under mild reaction conditions.
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- Gangutri Saikia
- Dept. of Chemical Sciences
- Tezpur University
- Tezpur-784028
- India
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- Dept. of Chemical Sciences
- Tezpur University
- Tezpur-784028
- India
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- Dept. of Chemical Sciences
- Tezpur University
- Tezpur-784028
- India
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- Dept. of Chemical Sciences
- Tezpur University
- Tezpur-784028
- India
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Abdelaty MSA. Poly( N-isopropylacrylamide- co-2-((diethylamino)methyl)-4-formyl-6-methoxyphenyl acrylate) Environmental Functional Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Grafting with Amino Acids. Biomolecules 2018; 8:E138. [PMID: 30404234 PMCID: PMC6316684 DOI: 10.3390/biom8040138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2018] [Revised: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Vanillin was used to synthesize a new derivative with an active aldehyde group and response to pH. It is named 2-((diethylamino) methyl)-4-formyl-6-methoxyphenyl acrylate, abbreviated to DEAMVA. The chemical structures were evaluated by ¹H, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), and UV-Vis-spectroscopy, and all results demonstrated good statement. In order to achieve the dual responsive behavior thermo-pH with functionality, free radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide with DEAMVA in different molar ratios (5, 10, 15 mol%) has been used, with azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as the initiator. The chemical structure of the polymers was investigated by ¹H NMR and IR. The dual responsive functional copolymer was exposed to a grafted process with tryptophan and tyrosine, both of which were also evaluated by ¹HNMR and IR. Copolymers before and after grafting were physically investigated by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) for estimation of the molecular weight, the glass transition temperature by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) for the surface morphology. The phase separation or lower critical solution temperature (LCST) (Tc) of the polymer solution was determined not only by a turbidity method using the change in the transmittance with temperature, but also by micro-DSC. The conversion to an amino acid-grafted polymer was detected through Beer's law for the absorption of the ⁻CH=N- imine group by UV-Vis-Spectroscopy.
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- Momen S A Abdelaty
- Polymer and Biopolymer Lap, Department of Biology, Collage of Haql, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71491, Saudi Arabia.
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Study of the coordination of ortho-tyrosine and trans-4-hydroxyproline with aluminum(III) and iron(III). J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.08.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Shahraki S, Shiri F, Heidari Majd M, Dahmardeh S. Anti-cancer study and whey protein complexation of new lanthanum(III) complex with the aim of achieving bioactive anticancer metal-based drugs. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2018; 37:2072-2085. [PMID: 29768984 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1476266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In this study, a new lanthanum (III)-amino acid complex utilizing cysteine has been synthesized and characterized. The anticancer activities of the prepared La(III) complex against MCF-7 cell lines were studied. Results of MTT assay showed that at all three incubation times, the cytotoxic effect of prepared La(III) complex on MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines displays a time- and dose-dependent inhibitory effects. The interactions of the La(III) complex with two whey proteins (bovine serum albumin, BSA, and Bovine β-lactoglobulin, βLG) have been explored by using spectroscopic and molecular dicking methods. The obtained results indicated that La(III) complex strongly quenched the fluorescence of two carrier proteins in static quenching mode and also, BSA hah stronger binding affinity toward studied complex than βLG whit binding constant values of KBSA-La Complex ∼ 0.11 × 104 M-1 and KβLG-La Complex ∼ 0.63 × 103 M-1 at 300 K. The thermodynamic parameters revealed the contribution of hydrogen bond and Vander Waals interactions in both systems. The distances of the La(III) complex whit whey proteins were calculated using Förster energy transfer theory and proved existence of the energy transfer between two proteins and prepared La(III) complex with a high probability. FT-IR and UV-Vis absorption measurements indicated that the binding of the La(III) to BSA and βLG may induce conformational and micro-environmental changes of the proteins. The docking results indicate that the La(III) complex bind to residues located in the site II of BSA and second site of βLG. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Somaye Shahraki
- a Department of Chemistry , University of Zabol , P.O. Box 98615-538 , Zabol , Iran
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- a Department of Chemistry , University of Zabol , P.O. Box 98615-538 , Zabol , Iran
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- b Faculty of Pharmacy , Zabol University of Medical Sciences , Zabol , Iran
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Canaj AB, Kakaroni FΕ, Collet A, Milios CJ. α-Amino acids: Natural and artificial building blocks for discrete polymetallic clusters. Polyhedron 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2018.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Stability, lability, spectral parameters and structure of complexes and stereoselective effects in the nickel(II) – l/d/dl-histidine – l/d/dl-methionine systems. Inorganica Chim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2018.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Malandrinos G, Panagiotou K, Hadjiliadis N. Effective binding of copper(II) with the peptide acetyl-GYDVEK-amide, model of the globular domain N-terminal of somatic histone H1 variants. Inorganica Chim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2017.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Characterization of the one-electron oxidized Cu(II)-salen complexes with a side chain aromatic ring: the effect of the indole ring on the Cu(II)-phenoxyl radical species. J Biol Inorg Chem 2017; 23:51-59. [PMID: 29218633 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-017-1508-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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To gain insights into the role of the proximal indole ring in the redox-active metal center as seen in galactose oxidase, we prepared the Cu(II)-salen-type complexes having a pendent indol-3-ylmethyl (1), methyl (2) or benzyl (3) group substituted on the ethylenediamine moiety and investigated the structures and redox properties by various physicochemical methods and theoretical calculations. Neutral complexes 1, 2, and 3 showed no significant difference in the UV-Vis-NIR and EPR spectra. One-electron oxidation of 1, 2, and 3 by addition of 1 equiv. of thianthrenyl radical gave [1]SbCl 6 , [2]SbCl 6 , and [3]SbCl 6 , respectively, which could be assigned to relatively localized phenoxyl radical species. The cyclic and differential pulse voltammograms of [1]SbCl 6 showed two redox waves with a large separation between the first and second redox potentials compared with the separations observed for [2]SbCl 6 and [3]SbCl 6 . This suggests that [1]SbCl 6 is more stabilized than [2]SbCl 6 and [3]SbCl 6 . The NIR band of [1]SbCl 6 showed a larger blue shift than that of [2]SbCl 6 and [3]SbCl 6 . The EPR spectrum of [2]SbCl 6 exhibited an intense signal at the g value of 2 due to partial disproportionation to form the EPR active two-electron oxidized complex [2] 2+ , while the EPR intensity of [1]SbCl 6 was much weaker than that of [2]SbCl 6 . These results indicate that the pendent indole moiety stabilizes the Cu(II)-phenoxyl radical in [1]SbCl 6 most probably by stacking with the phenoxyl moiety, which is further supported by DFT calculations.
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Kokan Z, Perić B, Kovačević G, Brozovic A, Metzler-Nolte N, Kirin SI. cis
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-Square-Planar Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes with Triphenylphosphine Amino Acid Bioconjugates. Eur J Inorg Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Zoran Kokan
- Ruđer Bošković Institute; Bijenička 54 10000 Zagreb Croatia
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- Ruđer Bošković Institute; Bijenička 54 10000 Zagreb Croatia
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Ruhr University Bochum; Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany
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Non-canonical amino acids bearing thiophene and bithiophene: synthesis by an Ugi multicomponent reaction and studies on ion recognition ability. Amino Acids 2017; 49:921-930. [DOI: 10.1007/s00726-017-2392-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Rojas S, Devic T, Horcajada P. Metal organic frameworks based on bioactive components. J Mater Chem B 2017; 5:2560-2573. [DOI: 10.1039/c6tb03217f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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This review highlights the latest advances of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in the promising biomedical domain, from their synthesis to their biorelated activities.
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- S. Rojas
- Institut Lavoisier
- CNRS UMR8180m Université de Versailles. 45
- Av. Des Etats Unis 78035 Versailles Cedex
- France
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- Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel
- UMR 6502 CNRS Université de Nantes
- 44322 Nantes cedex 3
- France
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Brisson ERL, Xiao Z, Franks GV, Connal LA. Versatile Synthesis of Amino Acid Functional Polymers without Protection Group Chemistry. Biomacromolecules 2016; 18:272-280. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Emma R. L. Brisson
- Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Particulate
Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Particulate
Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Particulate
Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Particulate
Fluids Processing Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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Ding Y, Niu Y, Yang J, Ma L, Liu J, Xiong Y, Xu H. A Metal-Amino Acid Complex-Derived Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2016; 12:5414-5421. [PMID: 27552245 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201602247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst: A metal-amino acid complex is developed to prepare high-performance mesoporous carbon electrocatalyst for both oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions. Such prepared catalyst can be used to assemble rechargeable zinc-air batteries with excellent durability. This work represents a new route toward low-cost, highly active, and durable bifunctional electrocatalysts for cutting-edge energy conversion devices.
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- Yanjun Ding
- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Eco-materials and Renewable Energy Research Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210093, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
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