Increases in serum and liver copper content are noted during iron deficiency in mammals, suggesting that copper-dependent processes participate during iron deprivation. One point of intersection between the 2 metals is the liver-derived, multicopper ferroxidase ceruloplasmin (Cp) that is important for iron release from certain tissues. The current study sought to explore Cp expression and activ...

In the past few decades, discharging thousands of organic, inorganic, and biological pollutants into environment has severely deteriorated water quality especially the heavy metals pollution which could be concentrated in organisms and, thus, harmful to most plants and animals not only at a high dose but also in relatively low concentration [1]. The continuous existence of heavy metal contamina...

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a valuable model for studying metal metabolism in a photosynthetic background. A search of the Chlamydomonas expressed sequence tag database led to the identification of several components that form a copper-dependent iron assimilation pathway related to the high-affinity iron uptake pathway defined originally for Saccharomyces cerevisiae....

Monodisperse small iron oxide nanoparticles functionalized with dendritic polyglycerol (dPG) or dendritic polyglycerol sulfate (dPGS) are prepared. They are highly stable in aqueous solutions as well as physiological media. In particular, oleic acid capped iron oxide particles (core diameter = 11 ± 1 nm) were modified by a ligand exchange process in a one pot synthesis with dPG and dPGS bearing...

Magnetically modified activated carbon, which synthesized by nanomagnetic iron oxide, was used for fast and effective removal of Crystal Violet from aqueous solutions. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of nano-adsorbent showed that the average sizes of adsorbent are less than 100 nm. The various parameters, affecting on adsorption process, were examined including pH and temperature ...

cupper oxide structures with a variety of novel morphologies are synthesized using cupper foil as substrate via a solution route. the structure, morphology and phase of the as-synthesized nanostructures are analyzed by various techniques. sem images show gradual development of hierarchical structures of copper oxide with different morphology. in order to study the effect of reaction time and te...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of iron and copper on bovine oocyte maturation, preimplantation embryo development and apoptosis of blastocysts. The concentrations of iron in the culture media were 0 (control), 0.45, 0.81, 1.96 and 3.26 mg/l, and the concentrations of copper were 0 (control), 0.093, 0.27, 0.46 and 0.68 mg/l. The changes in the iron (1.96 mg/l) and copper co...

Copper and iron are essential elements for cellular growth. Although bacteria have to overcome limitations of these metals by affine and selective uptake, excessive amounts of both metals are toxic for the cells. Here we investigated the influences of copper stress on iron homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis, and we present evidence that copper excess leads to imbalances of intracellular iron meta...