The mechanism for the hydration of CO2 within a Keplerate nanocapsule is presented. A network of hydrogen bonds across the water layers in the first metal coordination sphere facilitates the proton abstraction and nucleophilic addition of water. The highly acidic properties of the polyoxometalate cluster are crucial for explaining the catalysed hydration.

The angular correlation of the 150-247 kev gamma-ray cascade of (111m)Cd is strongly perturbed when this nucleus is bound to the enzyme carbonic anhydrase. A comparison of the perturbed angular correlation for the apoenzyme with that for native carbonic anhydrase confirms that the (111m)Cd binds at the active region of the enzyme. These results provide good evidence that the perturbed angular c...

The first highly selective and sensitive fluorescent probe Z1 for detection of carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX) over isoforms CA I and CA II was developed. As demonstrated, Z1 worked effectively in both enzymatic systems and living hypoxia cells.

We present the first report on bioinspired silica - produced using a green method - supported carbonic anhydrase for carbon capture and demonstrate significantly improved carbon capture efficiency and stability relevant to flue gas temperatures.

College of Biological Sciences, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China (Q.W.); Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (R.F., S.S.M.) and Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (Q.W., X.Y., Z.C., H.L., Y.L., C.L.), University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095; and State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University...

This paper describes a synthetic dimer of carbonic anhydrase, and a series of bivalent sulfonamide ligands with different lengths (25 to 69 Å between the ends of the fully extended ligands), as a model system to use in examining the binding of bivalent antibodies to antigens. Assays based on analytical ultracentrifugation and fluorescence binding indicate that this system forms cyclic, noncoval...

Molecular mechanics methods have been applied to study the interaction between a series of 20 deprotonated benzenesulfonamides and the enzyme carbonic anhydrase. The different contributions to the binding energy have been evaluated and correlated with experimental inhibition data and molecular orbital indices of the sulfonamides in their bound conformation. The results suggest that the discrimi...

Inhibition of ammonia excretion (J(amm)) is a common response to Cu exposure in freshwater (FW) and seawater (SW) organisms. To determine the mechanism of this response, a euryhaline species of guppy (Poecilia vivipara) was exposed to 20 μg Cu/l in FW (0 ppt) and SW (25 ppt) for 96 h. In both salinities, Cu transiently inhibited ammonia excretion (J(amm)) followed by a full recovery by the end ...

EVERAL S years ago it was reported by Smith (I) that the acidity of the urine in both the marine dogfish and sculpin is fixed at about PH 5.7 and cannot be changed by the intravenous administration of sodium bicarbonate, alkaline phosphate or phlorizin. The suggestion was then made that this fixation of urine PH might be related to the fact that in the marine fishes the urine contains large qua...

The dicopper(II) complexes of six pseudo-octapeptides, synthetic analogues of ascidiacyclamide and the patellamides, found in ascidians of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are shown to be efficient carbonic anhydrase model complexes with k(cat) up to 7.3 × 10(3) s(-1) (uncatalyzed: 3.7 × 10(-2) s(-1); enzyme-catalyzed: 2 × 10(5)-1.4 × 10(6) s(-1)) and a turnover number (TON) of at least 1700, lim...