Revised Manuscript Received August 17, 1988 e proficiency of living systems to cope with
reactive heavy metal ions in the environment and to utilize some of them as key constituents …

A wealth of chemical, spectroscopic and structural data attest to the uniqueness of the
metallothioneins as a group of novel bioinorganic structures. Their earmarking feature is the …

In a study of the binding stoichiometry of various metals to rat liver metallothionein, the
protein appears to coordinate metals in 2 distinct configurations. Ions of at least 18 different …

Tat, the transactivating protein from HIV, forms a metal-linked dimer with metal ions bridging
cysteine-rich regions from each monomer. This novel arrangement is distinct from the" zinc …

Mercury (II) complexes with l-cysteine (H2Cys) in alkaline aqueous solutions have been
structurally characterized by means of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) …

“At= fHg-protein-fproiein·* MT= metallothionein; sh= shoulder. cSee Figure 2 for
experimental details; mean value of five separate ti-trations. Largest deviation from mean< …

A variety of Cu reconstituted metallothioneins (MTs) containing different amounts of copper
ions together with Cd 7-MT free of copper were prepared and used in spin trapping …

This review summarizes the syntheses, crystal structures and applications of metal
complexes with a specific zwitterionic thiolate ligand, 4-(trimethylammonio) benzenethiolate …

Cadmium stress response was measured at the thiol peptide level in an aquatic
hyphomycete (Heliscus lugdunensis). In liquid culture, 0.1 mM cadmium increased the …

We report the first molecular dynamics calculations on the structure of metal-free βα
recombinant human metallothionein, with comparison to the two isolated fragments, α-rhMT …