Alcohol dehydrogenase and its simple inorganic models

A Dołęga - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Despite the long and extensive research, the mechanism of action of zinc-dependent
alcohol dehydrogenase on the molecular level is still uncertain. The present state of …

Electrochemical synthesis of metallic complexes of bidentate thiolates containing nitrogen as an additional donor atom

JA Garcı́a-Vázquez, J Romero, A Sousa - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 1999 - Elsevier
In this work, we describe the results obtained by our group on the synthesis of metallic
thiolato complexes by the electrochemical oxidation of a sacrificial anode in a non-aqueous …

The limitations of X-ray absorption spectroscopy for determining the structure of zinc sites in proteins. When is a tetrathiolate not a tetrathiolate?

K Clark-Baldwin, DL Tierney… - Journal of the …, 1998 - ACS Publications
X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectra have been measured for a series of
structurally characterized zinc model complexes that mimic the zinc sites found in …

Characterization of the Zinc Binding Site in Methionine Synthase Enzymes of Escherichia coli:  The Role of Zinc in the Methylation of Homocysteine

K Peariso, CW Goulding, S Huang… - Journal of the …, 1998 - ACS Publications
X-ray absorption spectroscopy, using the analytical methodology described in the previous
paper, has been used to determine the ligation of the essential zinc ions in cobalamin …

Zinc(II) and Copper(II) Complexes of Pentacoordinating (N4S) Ligands with Flexible Pyrazolyl Arms:  Syntheses, Structure, and Redox and Spectroscopic Properties

S Bhattacharyya, SB Kumar, SK Dutta… - Inorganic …, 1996 - ACS Publications
Zinc (II) and copper (II) complexes of two new potentially pentadentate ligands based on
methyl 2-aminocyclopent-1-ene-1-dithiocarboxylate with pendent pyrazolyl groups …

Complexes of sterically hindered thiolate ligands

JR Dilworth, J Hu - Advances in inorganic chemistry, 1993 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the chemistry of sterically hindered thiolate
complexes. The chapter presents a survey that covers the chemistry of transition metal and …

Nickel-Specific Response in the Transcriptional Regulator, Escherichia coli NikR

S Leitch, MJ Bradley, JL Rowe, PT Chivers… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Studies of the transcriptional repression of the Ni-specific permease encoded by the P nik
operon by Escherichia coli NikR using a LacZ reporter assay establish that the NikR …

Synthesis and Characterization of Pseudotetrahedral N2O and N2S Zinc(II) Complexes of Two Heteroscorpionate Ligands:  Models for the Binding Sites of Several …

BS Hammes, CJ Carrano - Inorganic chemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
Nine new pseudotetrahedral Zn (II) complexes of the heteroscorpionate ligands (3-tert-butyl-
2-hydroxy (or thio)-5-methylphenyl) bis (3, 5-dimethylpyrazolyl) methane, L1OH or L2SH …

Two different zinc sites in bovine 5-aminolevulinate dehydratase distinguished by extended X-ray absorption fine structure

AJ Dent, D Beyersmann, C Block, SS Hasnain - Biochemistry, 1990 - ACS Publications
Materials and Methods Materials. Water was bidistilled over quartz. All salts were of
analytical grade (pa). 2-Mercaptoethanol and Fractogel TSK-DEAE-F were obtained …

Mechanism of aldehyde oxidation catalyzed by horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase

LP Olson, J Luo, Ö Almarsson, TC Bruice - Biochemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
The mechanism of oxidation of benzaldehyde to benzoic acid catalyzed by horse liver
alcohol dehydrogenase (HLADH) has been investigated using the HLADH structure at 2.1 Å …