A saturable and temperature-dependent copper uptake pathway has been identified in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The uptake system has a high affinity for copper ions (Km approximately 0.2 microM) and is more active in cells that are adapted to copper deficiency than to cells grown in a medium containing physiological (submicromolar to micromolar) copper ion concentrations. The maximum velocity of...

-A synthetic investi :ation ofcopper(II) ibuprofenate (lbup) addition compounds with 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and 2,9-dimethyl-l,10-phenanthroline (dmph) has led to the isolation of dinuclear adducts of the forms [Cu(Ibup)2(bpy)]z'4H20 (1) and [Cu(Ibup)2(phen)]2 (2) and a mononuclear adduct Cu(lbup)2(dmph) (3). Spectroscopic data for adducts 1 and 2 are consistent with ...

A solid phase extraction procedure for simultaneous separation and preconcentration of traceamounts of Cu+2 ion from various real samples prior to its determination by flame atomicabsorption spectrometry has been developed. The proposed method is based on the utilization ofmultiwalled carbon nanotube in combination with Cupferron ligand as a solid phaseextractant. The influences of the analytic...

Copper plays a key role in the physiology of methanotrophs. One way that these bacteria meet their high copper requirement is by the biosynthesis and release of high affinity copper binding compounds called methanobactins. Recent advances in methanobactin characterization include the first crystal structure, detailed spectroscopic analyses, and studies of metal ion specificity. Methanobactin ma...

The mono(μ-oxo) dicopper cores present in the pores of Cu-ZSM-5 are active for the partial oxidation of methane to methanol. However, copper on the external surface reduces the ratio of active, selective sites to unselective sites. More efficient catalysts are obtained by controlling the copper deposition during synthesis. Herein, the external exchange sites of ZSM-5 samples were passivated by ...

Nutrient availability is an important environmental variable during development that has significant effects on the metabolism, health, and viability of an organism. To understand these interactions for the nutrient copper, we used a chemical genetic screen for zebrafish mutants sensitive to developmental copper deficiency. In this screen, we isolated two mutants that define subtleties of coppe...

Materials exhibiting high ionic conductivities in the solid state at room temperature have mainly been found in silver ion conductors based on silver iodide and in copper ion conductors which are based on cuprous halide. Silver iodide and cuprous halide show low ionic conductivities at room temperature, while they are high conductivity solids at relatively higher temperatures. In order to obtai...

Large increases in the conductance of peptides upon binding to metal ions have recently been reported experimentally. The mechanism of the conductance switching is examined computationally. It is suggested that oxidation of the metal ion occurs after binding to the peptide. This is caused by the bias potential placed across the metal-peptide complex. A combination of configurational changes, me...

BACKGROUND Few studies assessed effects of individual and multiple ions simultaneously on metabolic outcomes, due to methodological limitation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS By combining advanced ionomics and mutual information, a quantifying measurement for mutual dependence between two random variables, we investigated associations of ion modules/networks with overweight/obesity, metabolic...

Copper is an essential trace element in many organisms and is utilized in all domains of life. It is often used as a cofactor of redox proteins, but is also a toxic metal ion. Intracellular copper must be carefully handled to prevent the formation of reactive oxygen species which pose a threat to DNA, lipids, and proteins. In this work, we examined patterns of copper utilization in prokaryotes ...