Hydrogelation behavior of two amino-terpyridine ligands in the presence of divalent metal ions in water was studied in detail. The effect of ligand structure and different counter anions on the gel morphologies was also explored.

Divalent metal ions play numerous roles in biological, technological, and environmental systems. This study examines the role of a variety of ions, Mg(2+), Ca(2+), Mn(2+), Ni(2+), Cu(2+), and Zn(2+), in the adsorption of sodium decanoate at the carbon tetrachloride-water interface. For all ions studied, the ions drive the adsorption of the surfactant to the interface. Using vibrational sum-freq...

Divalent metal ions, such as Zn(2+), Co(2+), and Ni(2+), are capable of incorporating into DNA under certain conditions to form complexes termed M-DNA. To better understand the effects of these cations on DNA we used capillary electrophoresis (CE). The presence of these metal ions in a typical genotyping buffer led to broad peaks with low fluorescence intensities. In addition, some of the metal...

Divalent metal ions were found to trigger the shrinkage of a supramolecular hydrogel based on a peptide dendron, and the shrinkable gel could be further used to control the release of vitamin B1.

Although the hammerhead reaction proceeds most efficiently in divalent cations, cleavage in 4 M LiCl is only approximately 10-fold slower than under standard conditions of 10 mM MgCl2 (Murray et al., Chem Biol, 1998, 5:587-595; Curtis & Bartel, RNA, 2001, this issue, pp. 546-552). To determine if the catalytic mechanism with high concentrations of monovalent cations is similar to that with diva...

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.

A metal ion that attaches to a peptide backbone has the choice of binding to an amide carbonyl oxygen atom or to an amide nitrogen atom by replacement of the amide proton. Coordination to the nitrogen atom is normally accompanied by elimination of the proton, thereby resulting in deprotonation of the ligand. An alternative possibility, not involving deprotonation, is the unusual amide/iminol ta...

Background: It was previously shown that the activity of a serine protease from a moderately halotolerant Bacillus aquimaris VITP4 strain is active in a wide range of pH and temperatures and could be modulated by the presence of the divalent metal ions.  Objectives: In the present study, a quantitative analysis was done in order to explore the parameters that are contributing to the protease a...