The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

Cerium and its derivatives have been used as remedies for wounds since the early 20th
century. Cerium nitrate has attracted most attention in the treatment of deep burns, followed …

Paramagnetic centers in biomolecules, such as specific metal ions that are bound to a
protein, affect the nuclei in their surrounding in various ways. One of these effects is the …

1. Introduction.................................................................. 250 2. Magnetic moments,
magnetization, magnetic susceptibility................................ 250 2.1. The Curie …

The paramagnetism of lanthanide ions offers outstanding opportunities for fast
determinations of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of protein− ligand complexes by …

This Handbook on Metalloproteins focuses on the available structural information of proteins
and their metal ion coordination spheres. It centers on the metal ions indispensable for life …

The Ca2+-sensing protein calmodulin (CaM) is a popular model of biological ion binding
since it is both experimentally tractable and essential to survival in all eukaryotic cells. CaM …

Surveys of X-ray structures of Ca 2+-containing and lanthanide ion-containing proteins and
coordination complexes have been performed and structural features of the metal binding …

Playing tag with terbium: New hydrophobic contacts and ligating amino acids are revealed
in the 2.0-Å resolution X-ray crystal structure of a chemically evolved 17-residue lanthanide …

Cerium is a member of the lanthanide series or rare earth elements which exert diverse
biological effects mainly by their resemblance to calcium. This similarity, which is particularly …