Background & objectives: In recent years, iron nanoparticles have been successfully used to remove water pollutants. Fecal coliform is one of the parameters that reduces water quality and its removal is essential. The aim of the present study is using nanoscale zerovalent iron particles to enhance the usual sand filters in removal of fecal coliform of groundwater in Ilam city. Methods: Water s...

A new sensitive and selective spectrophotometric method for the determination of iron using a PVC membrane containing bathophenanthroline and dioctylphethalate as the solid phase extraction medium is investigated. Fe(II) in an aqueous sample solution is trapped on the membrane with an anion species, picrate ion and forms a complex with bathophenanthroline. The absorbance of the red-orange m...

The ability to acquire iron from various sources has been demonstrated to be a major determinant in the pathogenesis of Neisseria meningitidis. Outside the cells, iron is bound to transferrin in serum, or to lactoferrin in mucosal secretions. Meningococci can extract iron from iron-loaded human transferrin by the TbpA/TbpB outer membrane complex. Moreover, N. meningitidis expresses the LbpA/Lbp...

Geometry optimizations for several spin states of the iron(III)-S-methyl- porphyrin complex, the iron (III)-oxo-S-methyl-porphyrin complex and the respective anions were performed in order to examine models for intermediates in the oxidative cycle of cytochrome P450. The aim of this study was to obtain insights into the ground states of the intermediates of this catalytic cycle and to use the a...

iron is quantitatively retained on an adsorbent made by coprecipitation of 1,2-dihydroxybenzene-3,5-disulfonic acid (tiron) and tetradecyldimethylbenzylammonium choride (tdba) an microcrystalline naphthalene as a slurry or packed in a column, in the ph range 6.0-9.0 from a large volumes of aqueous solutions (up to 200 ml on microcrystalline naphthalene and up to 500 ml of aqueous solutions in t...

Deferasirox (Exjade, ICL670) is an orally active iron chelator. Two molecules of deferasirox can form a complex with ferric iron (Fe-[ICL670]2) that can be excreted, reducing body iron overload. The blood binding parameters across species and the interaction with human serum albumin were analyzed for deferasirox and its iron complex. Both molecules were very highly bound to plasma proteins in a...

spectroscopy and by measurements of proton magnetic relaxation rates under conditions in which carbon dioxide (and therefore bicarbonate) is excluded. Even in the absence of bicarbonate, specific binding of Fe3+ to transferrin may occur. Nitrilotriacetate, ethylenediaminetetraacetate, and oxalate were found capable of replacing bicarbonate to form colored complexes with iron and transferrin. Si...

The objective of this study was to identify a potential mechanism for S-nitrosation of proteins. Therefore, we assessed S-nitrosation of bovine serum albumin by dinitrosyl-iron-di-L-cysteine complex [(NO)2Fe(L-cysteine)2], a compound similar to naturally occurring iron-nitrosyls. Within 5-10 min, (NO)2Fe(L-cysteine)2 generated paramagnetic albumin-bound dinitrosyl-iron complex and S-nitrosoalbu...

It has previously been demonstrated that phenanthroline-based ligands used to make gold metallotherapuetics have the ability to exhibit cytotoxicity when not coordinated to the metal center. In an effort to help assess the mechanism by which these ligands may cause tumor cell death, iron binding and removal experiments have been considered. The close linkage between cell proliferation and intra...

Preliminary evidence suggested that phosphate or borate destabilize iron. ovotransferrin nitrilotriacetate complexes in the absence of added bicarbonate. The iron. ovotransferrin.EDTA complex was prepared in the absence of bicarbonate, and a number of anions, including phosphate, sulfate, and citrate, were found to perturb the visible absorbance (A,,,,, = 490 nm) of this complex. Other anions, ...