Purified ferrochelatase (protoheme ferrolyase; EC 4.99.1.1) from the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides was examined to determine the roles of cationic and sulfhydryl residues in substrate binding. Reaction of the enzyme sulfhydryl residues with N-ethylmaleimide or monobromobimane resulted in a rapid loss of enzyme activity. Ferrous iron, but not porphyrin substrate, had a protective effect...

in this study, aggregation behavior of a water soluble cationic metalloporphyrin, meso-tetrakis (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-n,n´,n´´-trimethyl ammonium phenyl) porphyrin nickel(ii) [ni(ii)(tf4tmapp)]4+ is investigated in 5 mm aqueous phosphate buffer of ph 7.0 at 25.0 °c and various ionic strengths using optical absorption and resonance light scattering spectroscopic methods. the results suggest that ...

In this study, aggregation behavior of a water soluble cationic metalloporphyrin, meso-tetrakis (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-N,N´,N´´-trimethyl ammonium phenyl) porphyrin nickel(II) [Ni(II)(TF4TMAPP)]4+ is investigated in 5 mM aqueous phosphate buffer of pH 7.0 at 25.0 °C and various ionic strengths using optical absorption and resonance light scattering spectroscopic methods. The...

Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) is an efficient approach against a wide range of microorganisms and can be viewed as an alternative for the treatment of microbial infections. In this work we synthesized "first" and "second" generation photosensitizers (PSs), the tetra-cationic porphyrin and the new penta-cationic chlorin , respectively, and evaluated their efficiency against two antibiotic res...

In this study, aggregation behavior of a water soluble cationic metalloporphyrin, meso-tetrakis (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-N,N ,́N ́ ́-trimethyl ammonium phenyl) porphyrin nickel(II) [Ni(II)(TF4TMAPP)] is investigated in 5 mM aqueous phosphate buffer of pH 7.0 at 25.0 °C and various ionic strengths using optical absorption and resonance light scattering spectroscopic methods. The results suggest that [N...

Asymmetric zinc porphyrin (ZnPy) was synthesized and used to sensitize nanosized TiO2. The visible-light-driven activity of CO2 photoreduction to generate CO/CH4 in the gas phase was observed from the ZnPy-sensitized TiO2 without loading noble metal, and the mechanism was discussed.

In the present paper, the potentiometric response characteristics of a metalloporphyrin-based electrode in o-nitrophenyloctylether (o-NPOE) plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) membrane are presented for a set of monovalent anions. As membrane ionophore, 5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(4-methoxyphenyl)-porphyrin-Co(II) (CoTMeOPP) was used. To establish the optimum composition of the membrane, different mo...