apotransferrin (apo tf)  in 0.1 m n-(2hydroxyethyl)piperazine-n2-ethanesulfanic acid at 25 ˚c  and ph 7.4 has been titrated with acidic solution of tb3+. the binding of tb3+ at  the two specific metal-binding sites of transferrin was followed from the changes in the difference uv spectra at 245 nm. the molar absorptivity per binding site for tb3+-tf is 22,500 ± 1000 m-1cm-1. to determine the tb...

We investigated the induction of renal tumors by the ferric complex of nitrilotriacetic acid (Fe-NTA) in male and female A/J mice. Fifty-three male and 21 female mice received i.p. injections of Fe-NTA, 1.8 to 2.7 mg of iron/kg of body weight/day, 6 days a wk for 12 wk, at the longest. Ten male and ten female mice received nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) i.p. at the dose equivalent to the NTA porti...

Bioassays for the carcinogenicity of nitrilotriacetic acid, trisodium salt, monohydrate (Na3-NTA-H2O) were conducted at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), using Fischer 344 rats and at Litton Bionetics, Inc. (LBI), using both Fischer 344 rats, and B6C3F1 mice. Similar bioassays using rats and mice, were conducted at LBI on the free acid, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA). Each chemical was mixed in r...

the aim of this work was to study the ability of two biodegradable chelating agents, nitrilotriaceticacid (nta) and ethylenediiminopropanedioic acid (eddm) to complex metals, in the treatment of the pulp,prior to a totally chlorine free (tcf) bleaching process, and compare with the ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid(edta) performance. firstly, speciation efficiency index (sei) was calculated by co...

This study describes a fast and accurate method for the sample preparation, identification, and quantitation of nitrilotriacetic (NTA) acid in environmental aqueous samples at a concentration of ppb level. The method is sensitive, specific, and free from the interferences of fatty and amino acids. The tri-n-propyl- and tri-n-butyl-NTA acid esters were prepared by the reaction of n-propyl-HCl an...

Major commercial applications of chelators include the pulp and paper, textile, metal, photographic, cosmetic and detergent industry.The substitution of polyphosphates in P-free washing products with complexing agents such as nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), sodium citrate, sodium carboxymethyltartonate (CMT) and recently co-polymeric carboxylic acids and inorganic builder Zeolite type A enabled th...

Fluorescent probes are essential for the exploration of protein function, detection of molecular interactions, and conformational changes. The nitrilotriacetic acid derivatives of different chromophores were successfully used for site-selective noncovalent fluorescence labeling of histidine-tagged proteins. All of them, however, suffer from the same drawback--loss of the fluorescence upon bindi...

The surface of a germanium internal reflectance element (IRE) was modified to bind 6X-histidine (his)-tagged biomolecules. The step-by-step surface modification was monitored via single-pass attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FT-IR). Initially an adlayer of 7-octenyltrimethoxysilane (7-OTMS) was formed on the Ge crystal through the surface hydroxyl groups,...

Development of mixed-culture microbial granules under aerobic conditions in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), capable of completely degrading a recalcitrant metal chelating agent is reported. In laboratory-scale reactor studies, the microbial granules degraded 2mM of free nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and Fe(III)-NTA completely in 14 and 40 h, respectively. Free NTA was degraded at a specific rat...

We report for the first time that nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) is an effective reductant for the preparation of stable dispersions of uniform gold nanoparticles. The method described is capable of generating stable sols with a metal concentration as high as 1.5×10(-3)moldm(-3). The size of gold nanoparticles can be tuned from 10 to 160 nm by adjusting the stoichiometric excess of NTA. For a cons...