BACKGROUND In spite of the fact that terbium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust, it is frequently used for the production of high technological materials. At the result, an effective combination of sample preparation procedure and detection method for terbium ions in different matrices is highly required. The solid-phase extraction procedure with natural Transcarpathian clinopti...

The function of an RNA molecule is determined by its overall secondary and tertiary structure. The tertiary structure is facilitated and stabilized by the interaction with metal ions. The current chapter offers a detailed protocol on the use of the lanthanide metal ion terbium(III) as a powerful probe of RNA structure and metal-binding properties. When incubating RNA with low (micromolar) conce...

The quadruple complex formed by terbium with 4-chlorosalicylic acid (CSA), EDTA and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTMAB) has been used for the sensitive spectrofluorometric determination of terbium in mixed rare earths. The effect of the experimental conditions on the fluorescence intensity was defined. Under the optimum conditions selected, the fluorescence intensity was linear with the terb...

Calretinin (CR) is a neuronal EF-hand protein previously characterized as a calcium (micromolar affinity) binding protein. CR-containing neurons are spared in some neurodegenerative diseases, although it is as yet unconfirmed how CR plays an active role in this protection. Higher levels of some metal cations (e.g. copper and zinc) are associated with these diseases. At the same time, metals suc...

A new terbium(III) complex with a (3,4-diphenyl)(2-methylthienyl)cyclopentadienyl ligand was synthesized. Single-crystal X-ray analysis revealed binuclear biscyclopentadienyl [TbCl2K]2 core. Luminescence properties of the terbium were analyzed.

A benzimidazole ligand with a tripodal structure, N, N′, N′′-tris (2-benzimidazolmethyl) amine, and its terbium (III) complex has been synthesized. The complex has been characterized by element analysis, IR spectra, mass spectra, thermal analysis and molar conductivity. The terbium ion is found to coordinate with the nitrogen atoms(=N-)of imidazole ring and the bridgehead nitrogen atom. The flu...

We have demonstrated the first observable case of efficient energy transfer from poly-ligands to terbium ions through cross-linked siloxane in solution. The intensification of green luminescence was easily perceived by the naked eye under UV-254 nm illumination, where even the terbium dopants reached 0.1 μM. Moreover, the nano-scale fibrous structure (diameter 100-200 nm) aggregated to a micro-...

Lanthanide ions have been successfully used as luminescent probes in several biological systems. The terbium (Tb) luminescence is greatly enhanced in Tb(III)-protein systems by non-radiative energy transfer from aromatic chromophores to bound Tb ions. In this study, the luminescent properties of terbium have been used to monitor the metal-peptide interactions of angiotensin II, a linear octopep...

Terbium, a fluorescent probe, which fluoresces primarily with guanine and xanthine bases, has been used to investigate the interaction of platinum complexes with DNA and RNA. c/sDichlorodiammineplatinum(ll), a potent antitumor agent, pro duced a marked enhancement in fluorescence intensity when reacted with double-stranded DNA. This can be explained by the c/s-dichlorodiammineplatinum(ll) produ...