The ability of superoxide anion (O2-) from stimulated human neutrophils (PMNs) to release ferrous iron (Fe2+) from transferrin was assessed. At pH 7.4, unstimulated PMNs released minimal amounts of O2- and failed to facilitate the release of Fe2+ from holosaturated transferrin. In contrast, incubation of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-stimulated PMNs with holosaturated transferrin at pH 7.4 en...

a novel magnetic mixed hemimicell solid phase extraction (mmhspe) technique for speciation analysis of soluble, ferrous and ferric iron in legumes sample by flame atomic absorption spectrometry analysis (faas) was developed. mmhspe system consisting of alumina-coated magnetite nanoparticles (fe3o4/al2o3nps) modified by sodium dodecylsulfate-1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (sds-pan) have been succes...

UNLABELLED Iron and copper toxicity has been presumed to involve the formation of hydroxyl radical (*OH) from H2O2 in the Fenton reaction. The aim of this study was to verify that Fe2+-O2 and Cu+-O2 chemistry is capable of generating *OH in the quasi physiological environment of Krebs-Henseleit buffer (KH), and to compare the ability of the Fe2+-O2 system and of the Fenton system (Fe2+ + H2O2) ...

We hypothesized that exposure of cells to H2O2 plus Fe2+ would increase formation of cell-derived lipid peroxides that would inactivate prostaglandin H synthase, resulting in decreased prostaglandin synthesis. Therefore, we treated human endothelial cells with 0-100 microM H2O2 followed immediately by addition of 0-200 microM Fe2+. After oxidant exposure, cells were stimulated with 20 microM ar...

Nanoparticles (NPs) which combine several magnetic phases offer wide perspectives for cutting edge applications because of the high modularity their properties. Besides addition characteristics intrinsic to each phase, interface that results from core-shell and, further, onion structures leads synergistic properties such as exchange coupling. Such a phenomenon is interest overcome superparamagn...

Duodenal Fe2+ uptake is essential to body Fe2+ homeostasis, but the interaction of metals with the uptake process remains unclear. The present study compared the effects of four essential trace metals (Mn2+, Zn2+, Co2+ and Ni2+) with two toxic metals (Pb2+ and Cd2+) on Fe2+ uptake across the brush border membrane of villus-attached duodenal enterocytes. Everted rat duodenum was exposed to buffe...

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from rat liver cytosol is activated by Fe2+ ions in either direction of catalysis. Preincubation of the purified enzyme with Fe2+ ions causes a time-dependent irreversible loss of activity; this is not seen with unpurified enzyme. Purified enzyme can be protected from inactivation by Fe2+ ions by partially purified protein fractions from liver (ferroactivator f...

Life originated in an anoxic, Fe2+-rich environment. We hypothesize that on early Earth, Fe2+ was a ubiquitous cofactor for nucleic acids, with roles in RNA folding and catalysis as well as in processing of nucleic acids by protein enzymes. In this model, Mg2+ replaced Fe2+ as the primary cofactor for nucleic acids in parallel with known metal substitutions of metalloproteins, driven by the Gre...

Pressure-induced structural changes in di-iron nonacarbonyl [Fe2(CO)9] were examined by in situ Raman spectroscopy with the aid of a diamond anvil cell. Our results indicate that Fe2(CO)9 undergoes a pressure-induced phase transformation at about 0.9 GPa. Upon further compression, another structural transformation is identified at 7 GPa. In the low-pressure phase below 0.9 GPa, the π back-bondi...

The initiation of lipid peroxidation by Fe2+ and H2O2 (Fenton's reagent) is often proposed to be mediated by the highly reactive hydroxyl radical. Using Fe2+, H2O2, and phospholipid liposomes as a model system, we have found that lipid peroxidation, as assessed by malondialdehyde formation, is not initiated by the hydroxyl radical, but rather requires Fe3+ and Fe2+. EPR spin trapping with 5,5-d...