TY  - JOUR
A1  - Awad, Duha Jawad
A1  - Koch, Andreas
A1  - Mickler, Wulfhard
A1  - Schilde, Uwe
A1  - Strauch, Peter
T1  - EPR spectroscopy of 4, 4 '-Bis(tert-butyl)-2, 2 '-bipyridine-1, 2-dithiolatocuprates(II) in host lattices with different coordination geometries
JF  - Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
N2  - A series of new heteroleptic MN2S2 transition metal complexes with M = Cu2+ for EPR measurements and as diamagnetic hosts Ni2+, Zn2+, and Pd2+ were synthesized and characterized. The ligands are N2 = 4, 4'-bis(tert-butyl)-2, 2'-bipyridine (tBu2bpy) and S2 =1, 2-dithiooxalate, (dto), 1, 2-dithiosquarate, (dtsq), maleonitrile-1, 2-dithiolate, or 1, 2-dicyanoethene-1, 2-dithiolate, (mnt). The CuII complexes were studied by EPR in solution and as powders, diamagnetically diluted in the isostructural planar [NiII(tBu2bpy)(S2)] or[PdII(tBu2bpy)(S2)] as well as in tetrahedrally coordinated[ZnII(tBu2bpy)(S2)] host structures to put steric stress on the coordination geometry of the central CuN2S2 unit. The spin density contributions for different geometries calculated from experimental parameters are compared with the electronic situation in the frontier orbital, namely in the semi-occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) of the copper complex, derived from quantum chemical calculations on different levels (EHT and DFT). One of the hosts, [NiII(tBu2bpy)(mnt)], is characterized by X-ray structure analysis to prove the coordination geometry. The complex crystallizes in a square-planar coordination mode in the monoclinic space group P21/a with Z = 4 and the unit cell parameters a = 10.4508(10) angstrom, b = 18.266(2) angstrom, c = 12.6566(12) angstrom, beta = 112.095(7)degrees. Oxidation and reductions potentials of one of the host complexes, [Ni(tBu2bpy)(mnt)], were obtained by cyclovoltammetric measurements.
KW  - 1
KW  - 2-Dithiosquarate
KW  - 1
KW  - 2-Dithiooxalate
KW  - 1
KW  - 2-Dicyanoethene-1
KW  - 2-dithiolate
KW  - 4
KW  - 4'-Bis(tert-butyl)-2
KW  - 2'-bipyridine
KW  - X-ray structure
KW  - EPR
KW  - Copper
KW  - Nickel
KW  - Zinc
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.201100517
SN  - 0044-2313
VL  - 638
IS  - 6
SP  - 965
EP  - 975
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rademacher, Corinna
A1  - Hoffmann, Marie-Christine
A1  - Lackmann, Jan-Wilm
A1  - Moser, Roman
A1  - Pfänder, Yvonne
A1  - Leimkühler, Silke
A1  - Narberhaus, Franz
A1  - Masepohl, Bernd
T1  - Tellurite resistance gene trgB confers copper tolerance to Rhodobacter capsulatus
JF  - BioMetals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry and medicine
N2  - To identify copper homeostasis genes in Rhodobacter capsulatus, we performed random transposon Tn5 mutagenesis. Screening of more than 10,000 Tn5 mutants identified tellurite resistance gene trgB as a so far unrecognized major copper tolerance determinant. The trgB gene is flanked by tellurite resistance gene trgA and cysteine synthase gene cysK2. While growth of trgA mutants was only moderately restricted by tellurite, trgB and cysK2 mutants were severely affected by tellurite, which implies that viability under tellurite stress requires increased cysteine levels. Mutational analyses revealed that trgB was the only gene in this chromosomal region conferring cross-tolerance towards copper. Expression of the monocistronic trgB gene required promoter elements overlapping the trgA coding region as shown by nested deletions. Neither copper nor tellurite affected trgB transcription as demonstrated by reverse transcriptase PCR and trgB-lacZ fusions. Addition of tellurite or copper gave rise to increased cellular tellurium and copper concentrations, respectively, as determined by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy. By contrast, cellular iron concentrations remained fairly constant irrespective of tellurite or copper addition. This is the first study demonstrating a direct link between copper and tellurite response in bacteria.
KW  - Copper
KW  - Tellurite
KW  - Nudix hydrolase
KW  - Metal homeostasis
KW  - Rhodobacter
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10534-012-9566-2
SN  - 0966-0844
VL  - 25
IS  - 5
SP  - 995
EP  - 1008
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -