in the present study, fe3o4 super paramagnetic nanoparticles were synthesized via co-precipitation of fe3+ and fe2+ chloride salts in the presence of ammonia solution. the product was characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir), transmission electron microscopy (tem), and zeta–potential particle size distributing methods. the synthetic procedure of nano iron oxides were opt...

Cyanide binding to bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase at five redox levels has been investigated by use of infrared and visible-Soret spectra. A C-N stretch band permits identification of the metal ion to which the CN- is bound and the oxidation state of the metal. Non-intrinsic Cu, if present, is detected as a cyanide complex. Bands can be assigned to Cu+CN at 2093 cm-1, Cu2+CN at 2151 or 2165 ...

Protein ferroxidase site(s), which catalyze the reaction between ferrous ion and dioxygen, have long been thought to play a role in core formation in ferritin; however, the mechanism of the reaction has never been studied in detail. In the present work, the enzymatic activity of ferritin was examined using oximetry, the net Fe2+ oxidation reaction being as follows. [formula: see text] The react...

PgMntR is a predicted member of the DtxR family of transcriptional repressors responsive to manganese in the anaerobic periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis. Our bioinformatic analyses predicted that PgMntR had divalent metal binding site(s) with elements of both manganous and ferrous ion specificity and that PgMntR has unusual twin C-terminal FeoA domains. We produced recombinant PgMnt...

Deoxyribose test has been widely used for determination of reactivities of various compounds for the hydroxyl radical. The test is based on the formation of hydroxyl radical by Fe2+ complex in the Fenton reaction. We propose a modification of the deoxyribose test to detect strong iron binding, inhibiting participation of Fe2+ in the Fenton reaction, on the basis of examination of concentration ...

Both mammalian and bacterial ferritin undergo rapid reaction with small-molecule reductants, in the absence of Fe2+ chelators, to form ferritins with reduced (Fe2+) mineral cores. Large, low-potential reductants (flavoproteins and ferredoxins) similarly react anaerobically with both ferritin types to quantitatively produce Fe2+ in the ferritin cores. The oxidation of Fe2+ ferritin by large prot...