The electrical energy grid has a growing need for energy storage to address short-term transients, frequency regulation, and load leveling. Though electrochemical energy storage devices such as batteries offer an attractive solution, current commercial battery technology cannot provide adequate power, and cycle life, and energy efficiency at a sufficiently low cost. Copper hexacyanoferrate and ...

The melanin operon (melC) of Streptomyces antibioticus is composed of two genes that encode MelC1 and MelC2 proteins. MelC1 has been suggested as a trans-activator which can facilitate the incorporation of copper into the apotyrosinase (MelC2) (Lee, Y.-H. W., Chen, B.-F., Wu, S.-Y., Leu, W.-M., Lin, J.-J., Chen, C. W., and Lo, S. J. (1988) Gene (Amst.) 65, 71-81). However, the molecular mechani...

Using a genetic screen we have identified two chromosomal genes, cusRS (ylcA ybcZ), from Escherichia coli K-12 that encode a two-component, signal transduction system that is responsive to copper ions. This regulatory system is required for copper-induced expression of pcoE, a plasmid-borne gene from the E. coli copper resistance operon pco. The closest homologs of CusR and CusS are plasmid-bor...

Introduction Copper amine oxidases are ubiquitous metalloenzymes. Their function in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes is to utilise amines as a source for carbon and nitrogen. In higher eukaryotes, their roles are less well understood, but have been linked with cell signalling, growth and development, and cell death. Despite this apparent diversity, their fundamental role is to catalyse the oxid...

Multilayered thin films consisting of high electrical conductivity copper layers sandwiched between pairs of low coercivity ferromagnetic alloys can exhibit giant magnetoresistance. The magnitude of the magnetoresistance increases with the structural and chemical perfection of the interfaces. Recent atomistic modeling and experimental observations have shown that nickel and cobalt atoms in the ...

in the present study, we investigate the potentiometric behavior of cu2+ carbon paste electrodes based on two mercapto compounds 2-ethylmino-5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (eamt) and 2-acetylamino-5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (aamt) self-assembled on gold nano-paricle (gnp) as ionophore. then, the results obtained from the modified electrodes are compared. the self-assembled ionophores exhibit a ...

Nitrosocyanin (NC) is a mononuclear red copper protein isolated from the ammonia oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. Although NC exhibits some sequence homology to classic blue copper proteins, its spectroscopic and electrochemical properties are drastically different. The 1.65 A resolution crystal structure of oxidized NC reveals an unprecedented trimer of single domain cupredoxins. Eac...

The effect of sulphuric acid concentration on the kinetics of silver ion cementation on copper in the electrolyte containing 0.5 M CuSO4 was investigated at 25 oC at a rotating cylinder system. The morphology of the silver deposit cemented in the presence or absence of oxygen was studied. Additionally, the influence of the concentration of H ion on the mechanism of the cementation, proposed by ...

Zinc and copper are highly concentrated in several mammalian brain regions, including the olfactory bulb and hippocampus. Whole cell electrophysiological recordings were made from rat olfactory bulb neurons in primary culture to compare the effects of zinc and copper on synaptic transmission and voltage-gated ion channels. Application of either zinc or copper eliminated GABA-mediated spontaneou...

The copper chaperone for the superoxide dismutase (CCS) gene is necessary for expression of an active, copper-bound form of superoxide dismutase (SOD1) in vivo in spite of the high affinity of SOD1 for copper (dissociation constant = 6 fM) and the high intracellular concentrations of both SOD1 (10 microM in yeast) and copper (70 microM in yeast). In vitro studies demonstrated that purified Cu(I...