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Ciuculescu ED Mekmouche Y Faller P 《Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)》2005,11(3):903-909
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the function of this membrane protein is still unclear. Metal ions are implicated in AD and they also interact with APP. APP possesses a strong ZnII binding site, which is evolutionary conserved. In this paper a synthetic peptide, APP170-188, with a sequence corresponding to the conserved ZnII-binding domain of APP, was synthesised and its metal-binding properties analysed. Titration experiments pointed to the binding of a stoichiometric amount of divalent ions. Further studies indicated that the binding of divalent metals like ZnII, CdII and CoII induces the dimerisation of the peptide. This dimer contains a dinuclear cluster in which the two divalent metals are bridged by two thiolate ligands from cysteine residues. The other two ligands of the tetrahedral coordination sites of each metal ion are terminal thiolate ligands. This structure was supported by the following arguments. The complex formed with CoII presents the characteristic features for tetrahedral tetrathiolate coordination in its UV-visible spectrum. The sequence of APP170-188 contains only three cysteine residues, which is incompatible with a monomeric CoII-APP170-188 complex. EPR measurements of the complex with one equivalent of CoII show almost no signal at 4 K, which is compatible with an antiferromagnetic spin-coupling of the metal ions in a cluster structure. Size-exclusion chromatography indicated that the elution time for the complexes with ZnII and CdII corresponds to the expected molecular weight of a dimer. The circular dichroism (CD) spectrum of the complex with one equivalent of CdII shows a band at 265 nm+, and an ellipticity similar to those observed for similar CdII-thiolate clusters. Possible biological implications of the ZnII binding site and the metal-induced dimerisation are discussed. 相似文献
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Frédéric Pelletier Dr. Diana Ciuculescu Jean‐Gabriel Mattei Dr. Pierre Lecante Dr. Marie‐José Casanove Dr. Nader Yaacoub Dr. Jean‐Marc Greneche Dr. Carolin Schmitz‐Antoniak Prof. Catherine Amiens 《Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)》2013,19(19):6021-6026
The effectiveness of amine–borane as reducing agent for the synthesis of iron nanoparticles has been investigated. Large (2–4 nm) Fe nanoparticles were obtained from [Fe{N(SiMe3)2}2]. Inclusion of boron in the nanoparticles is clearly evidenced by extended X‐ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy and Mössbauer spectrometry. Furthermore, the reactivity of amine–borane and amino–borane complexes in the presence of pure Fe nanoparticles has been investigated. Dihydrogen evolution was observed in both cases, which suggests the potential of Fe nanoparticles to promote the release of dihydrogen from amine–borane and amino–borane moieties. 相似文献
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Claudia Valentina Popa Liliana Lungu Ligia Florentina Cristache Crinu Ciuculescu Andrei Florin Danet 《Natural product research》2015,29(18):1744-1747
To gain new insight into the antimicrobial potential of Ailanthus altissima Swingle, ethanol leaf extracts were evaluated for the antifungal effects against the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae. The extracts inhibited the yeast growth in a dose-dependent manner, and this effect could be augmented by heat shock, exposure to visible light or exposure to high concentrations of Ca2+. Using transgenic yeast cells expressing the Ca2+-dependent photoprotein, aequorin, it was found that the leaf extracts induced cytosolic Ca2+ elevation. Experiments on yeast mutants with defects in Ca2+ transport demonstrated that the cytotoxicity of the A. altissima leaf extracts (AaLEs) was mediated by transient pulses of Ca2+ ions which were released into the cytosol predominantly from the vacuole. The investigation of the antifungal synergies involving AaLEs may contribute to the development of optimal and safe combination therapies for the treatment of drug-resistant fungal infections. 相似文献
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