[HTML][HTML] Shedding Light on Calcium Dynamics in the Budding Yeast: A Review on Calcium Monitoring with Recombinant Aequorin

LI Gogianu, LL Ruta, IC Farcasanu - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recombinant aequorin has been extensively used in mammalian and plant systems as a
powerful tool for calcium monitoring. While aequorin has also been widely applied in yeast …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a biological model to study microbial responses to copper and chromium stress

MC Della Vedova, JO Bonilla, MD Paez… - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
To understand the aspects of how organisms cope with copper and chromium stress,
Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used as a model. To achieve this purpose, Scanning …

Copper (II) complexes with mixed heterocycle ligands as promising antibacterial and antitumor species

AM Rostas, M Badea, LL Ruta, IC Farcasanu, C Maxim… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Complexes with mixed ligands [Cu (NN) 2 (pmtp)](ClO4) 2 ((1) NN: 2, 2′-bipyridine;(2) L: 1,
10-phenanthroline and pmpt: 5-phenyl-7-methyl-1, 2, 4-triazolo [1, 5-a] pyrimidine) were …

Increased copper bioremediation ability of new transgenic and adapted Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains

P Geva, R Kahta, F Nakonechny, S Aronov… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Environmental pollution with heavy metals is a very serious ecological problem, which can
be solved by bioremediation of metal ions by microorganisms. Yeast cells, especially …

Physiological and biochemical responses of Phragmites australis to wastewater for different time duration

R Khalilzadeh, A Pirzad, E Sepehr, S Anwar… - Acta Physiologiae …, 2022 - Springer
Phragmites australis exhibits substantial tolerance for salt and heavy metals exposure in the
environment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate some biochemical parameters of …

Antiproliferative and antibacterial properties of biocompatible copper (II) complexes bearing chelating N, N-heterocycle ligands and potential mechanisms of action

R Olar, M Badea, M Bacalum, M Răileanu, LL Ruţă… - Biometals, 2021 - Springer
In an attempt to propose new applications for the biomedical field, complexes with mixed
ligands {[Cu (bpy) 2 (μ 2 OClO 3)] ClO 4} n (1) and [Cu (phen) 2 (OH 2)](ClO 4) 2 (2)(bpy: 2 …

Enantiomeric pairs of copper (II) complexes with tridentate Schiff bases derived from R-and S-methionine: the role of decorating organic groups of the ligand in crystal …

C Maxim, CD Ene, I Nicolau, LL Ruta… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Three enantiomeric pairs consisting of copper (II) complexes with tridentate Schiff bases
have been synthesized for employing in biological assessments: 1∞[Cu2 (R/S-salmet) 2 …

Calcium and cell response to heavy metals: can yeast provide an answer?

IC Farcasanu, CV Popa, LL Ruta - Calcium and signal …, 2018 - books.google.com
Despite constant efforts to maintain a clean environment, heavy metal pollution continues to
raise challenges to the industrialized world. Exposure to heavy metals is detrimental to living …

Copper blocks V‐ATPase activity and SNARE complex formation to inhibit yeast vacuole fusion

GE Miner, KD Sullivan, C Zhang, LR Hurst, ML Starr… - Traffic, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of copper in organisms can lead to altered functions of various pathways
and become cytotoxic through the generation of reactive oxygen species. In yeast, cytotoxic …

High-affinity iron and calcium transport pathways are involved in U (VI) uptake in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

B Revel, P Catty, S Ravanel, J Bourguignon… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Uranium (U) is a naturally-occurring radionuclide that is toxic for all living organisms. To
date, the mechanisms of U uptake are far from being understood. Here we provide a direct …