Transcriptional response of Escherichia coli to extracellular zinc was studied using DNA microarray and S1 mapping assays. Addition of external zinc induced the expression of zinc exporter ZntA and inhibited the expression of zinc importer ZnuC. In the continuous presence of zinc, ZnuC repression took place at lower zinc concentrations than ZntA induction. The microarray assay indicated that th...

In the reaction of pyridine-2-carb-oxy-lic acid and stannic chloride in the presence of 2-methyl-8-hy-droxy-quinoline, the 2-methyl-8-hy-droxy-quinoline is protonated, yielding the title salt, (C(10)H(10)NO)[SnCl(4)(C(6)H(4)NO(2))]. The Sn(IV) atom in the anion is N,O-chelated by a pyridine-2-carboxyl-ate in a cis-SnNOCl(4) octa-hedral geometry. The cation is linked to the anion by an O-H⋯O hyd...

In the title compound, (C(12)H(12)NO(2))[Sn(C(4)H(9))(C(10)H(6)NO(2))Cl(3)], the Sn atom is coordinated by one O and one N atom of a quinolinium-2-carboxyl-ate anion, three Cl atoms and one butyl ligand within a distorted octa-hedron. Three C atoms of the butyl ligand are disordered and were refined using a split model; the site occupancies are 0.57 and 0.43. The NH group of the cation is invol...

BACKGROUND Adjustments in zinc losses and absorption are thought to maintain zinc homeostasis with changes in intake, but the capacity to make these adjustments appears to be affected by aging. Zinc status of the individual may also influence adjustments in fractional zinc absorption. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of changes in zinc status due to zinc suppleme...

Zinc ions highly concentrate in hippocampus and play a key role in modulating spatial learning and memory. At a time when dietary fortification and supplementation of zinc have increased the zinc consuming level especially in the youth, the toxicity of zinc overdose on brain function was underestimated. In the present study, weaning ICR mice were given water supplemented with 15 ppm Zn (low dos...

Host zinc deficiency halts the proliferation of the mouse Ehrlich ascites tumor. The major site of measurable cellular zinc depletion is a cytosolic zinc binding protein. This protein is characterized as a metallothionein on the basis of its presence as two isoproteins which behave on DEAE-Sephadex and in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis like metallothioneins, the lack of protein absorbance a...

Zinc absorption was measured in 37 children with malnutrition using the oral zinc tolerance test (22.5 mg elementary zinc) and the results compared with those of a group of healthy control subjects. The increase in plasma zinc was significantly lower in patients with marasmic kwashiorkor than in the control group. The zinc tolerance test was, however, normal in marasmic patients. We conclude th...

The nutritional essentiality of zinc for the growth of living organisms had been recognized long before zinc biochemistry began with the discovery of zinc in carbonic anhydrase in 1939. Painstaking analytical work then demonstrated the presence of zinc as a catalytic and structural cofactor in a few hundred enzymes. In the 1980s, the field again gained momentum with the new principle of "zinc f...