A simple fluorescent chemosensor 1 exhibits a 40-fold fluorescence enhancement upon addition of lead ion and yet is insensitive to most of univalent and divalent metal ions. The high affinity of 1 toward Pb2+ presumably results from the cooperative binding behaviors of two potential metal binding sites: the dicarbonyl and the 15-monoazacrown-5 ether.

Proteins represent the most sophisticated building blocks available to an organism and to the laboratory chemist. Yet, in contrast to nearly all other types of molecular building blocks, the designed self-assembly of proteins has largely been inaccessible because of the chemical and structural heterogeneity of protein surfaces. To circumvent the challenge of programming extensive non-covalent i...

Absrract: We have been concerned with the development of alternate strategies for achievinc; metalion recognition. An important aspect of this research has been to investigate meta! ion complexation over a range of related macrocycles, incorporating different macrocyclic rhg sizes, donor atom set combinations and/or degree of ring substitution and to search for stability rrnxima at different po...

Metal ions play several major roles in proteins: structural, regulatory, and enzymatic. The binding of some metal increase stability proteins or protein domains. Some can regulate various cell processes being first, second, third messengers. ions, especially transition take part catalysis many enzymes. From ten to twelve metals are vitally important for activity living organisms: sodium, potass...

AbstractInteraction of Ni complex(Salen= N, N´-ethylene bis(salicylideneimine)) with hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) was studied by absorption spectroscopy, competitive binding study and thermal denaturation study. The protein binding affinity of Ni complex was found to be (3.0×103M−1). The binding plot obtained from the absorption titration data gives a binding constant of 2.4 (± 0.3)×103 M...

Indium is a heavy metal belonging to group IIIa. It is believed that indium may interfere with iron metabolism from the sites of absorption, transportation, utilization and storage in the cells. The present investigation was established to study and compare the binding of iron and indium to human apo-transferrin (apo-tf). Pure human apo-tf was used and the binding activity of iron and indium, a...

spectropholornetrie technique is used to evaluate binding of the vanadium(1u) ion to a water solublecaruc[4] arene molecule in aqueous solution. on the basis of the calculated value formation constant at25rc.we found that the eomplexation of this metal on is very favored towards 25, 26, 27, 2stetrahydroxy-5, 11, 17, 23-tetnmulphonalic acid-calix[0]arenegaussian 03 package.