Ag+ Ion Binding to Human Metallothionein-2A Is Cooperative and Domain Specific

S Dong, M Shirzadeh, L Fan, A Laganowsky… - Analytical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Metallothioneins (MTs) constitute a family of cysteine-rich proteins that play key biological
roles for a wide range of metal ions, but unlike many other metalloproteins, the structures of …

The Synthesis of Protein‐Encapsulated Ceria Nanorods for Visible‐Light Driven Hydrogen Production and Carbon Dioxide Reduction

B Saif, Q Gu, P Yang - Small, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous consumption of fossil energy by human society, energy crisis, and
excessive CO2 emission are becoming global challenges.[1] Photocatalysis, achieving solar …

Photochemical synthesis of fluorescent Au 16 (RGDC) 14 and excited state reactivity with molecular oxygen

P Aminfar, G Yousefalizadeh, E Steele, J Chen… - Nanoscale, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous metal nanoclusters have emerged as effective materials for biomedical imaging
and therapy. Among them, gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have been widely studied due to their …

Silver cluster–amino acid interactions: a quantum-chemical study

AA Buglak, RR Ramazanov, AI Kononov - Amino Acids, 2019‏ - Springer
Binding of silver ion (Ag+) and two atomic neutral silver cluster (Ag 2) with a set of amino
acids has been studied using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and ab initio MP2 method …

Silver nanocluster-based ratiometric fluorescence sensors for X-ray dose detection

C Zhang, Y Yang, D Qin, R Hu, L Hu - Talanta, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we synthesized silver nanoclusters using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a
template (BSA@ AgNCs). Then, we anchored hydroxyphenyl fluorescein (HPF) to yield HPF …

Theoretical study of the binding of the thiol-containing cysteine amino acid to the silver surface using a cluster model

P Vu Nhat, NT Si, NT Tien… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Computational approaches within the framework of density functional theory (DFT) were
employed to elucidate the binding mechanism of the cysteine amino acid on silver …

Excited States in Single-Stranded and i-Motif DNA with Silver Ions

ZV Reveguk, EV Khoroshilov, AV Sharkov… - The Journal of …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
We have studied the excited states and structural properties for the complexes of cytosine
(dC) 10 chains with silver ions (Ag+) in a wide range of the Ag+ to DNA ratio (r) and pH …

Amino acid-stabilized luminescent gold clusters for sensing pterin and its analogues

TS Sych, NV Shekhovtsov, AA Buglak… - Analytical Methods, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Pteridines are important low molecular weight biomarkers used in the diagnostics of
inflammation, oxidative stress, phenylketonuria, cancer, etc. In this experimental study, we …

Structure and formation of luminescent centers in light-up Ag cluster-based DNA probes

ZV Reveguk, VA Pomogaev… - The Journal of …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Fluorescent beacons based on silver (Ag) clusters for DNA/RNA detection represent a new
type of turn-on probe that fluoresces upon hybridization to target nucleobase sequences …

Composites of silver nanoclusters and cellulose nanocrystals with tunable emission as multicolor inks

S Yang, L **ng, G Li, Z Yuan - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Here, we report fluorescent films of silver nanoclusters (AgNCs), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP),
and photonic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with a tunable fluorescence emission color by …