Ens han acceptat per a la seva publicació l’article sobre la MT de musclo a la revista Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry!!!  L’abstract és disponible a:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18389296?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

cita completa:

Metal-binding features of the mussel M.edulis MT-10-IV recombinant metallothionein: a polyvalent role in Zn, Cu and Cd housekeeping. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Accepted (2008). Orihuela R, Domènech J, Bofill R, You C, Mackay E, Kägi J, Capdevila M, Atrian S

La revista Biochimica et Biophysica Acta ens han acceptat perquè sigui publicat l’article sobre la metal·lotioneïna de Tetrahymena,  on es descriu el comportament coordinatiu i algunes dades estructurals d’aquesta MT, fruit de la feina que vaig estar fent a cavall entre Barcelona i Bologna.

l’abstract és disponible a l’adreça:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18280816?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

la cita complerta:

Comparative insight into the Zn(II)-, Cd(II)- and Cu(I)-binding features of the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis MT1 metallothionein. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1784(4):693-704 (2008). Domènech J, Bofill R, Tinti A, Torreggiani A, Atrian S, Capdevila M.

M’han concedit el premi Joan Oró a la Divulgaicó de la Recerca Científica que concedeix l’Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica, per el meu text “Carta d’un caçador de metalls”.

La notícia ha aparegut a la web de l’ACCC, la revista Sostenible i la UB.

El text serà publicat aviat a la revista Ictíneus, però és ja disponible a la web de l’ACCC, i us el podeu descarregar.

Ens han acceptat per a publicar un capítol al llibre Biopolymer Research Trends!!! El capítol duu per títol Research Progress on Metallothioneins: Insights into Structure, Metal Binding Properties and Molecular Function by Spectroscopic Investigations, i és el resultat de feina que vaig estar fent a l’estada de post-doc a Bologna, Itàlia.

La cita completa:

Biopolymer Research Trends

Click to enlarge <!– –> Editors: Tamás S. Németh Book Description: Biopolymers are a special class of polymers produced by living organisms. Starch, proteins and peptides, DNA, and RNA are all examples of biopolymers, in which the monomer units, respectively, are sugars, amino acids, and nucleic acids. A major but defining difference between polymers and biopolymers can be found in their structures. Polymers, including biopolymers, are made of repetitive units called monomers. Biopolymers inherently have a well defined structure: The exact chemical composition and the sequence in which these units are arranged is called the primary structure. Many biopolymers spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes (see also “protein folding” as well as secondary structure and tertiary structure), which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures. Structural biology is the study of the structural properties of the biopolymers. In contrast most synthetic polymers have much simpler and more random (or statistic) structures. This new book presents leading-edge research from around the world in this dynamic field.

Research Progress on Metallothioneins: Insights into Structure, Metal Binding Properties and Molecular Function by Spectroscopic Investigations; pp. 11-48
(Jordi Domenech, Dept. de Genetica, Facultat de Biologia, Univ. de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattivita, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy, Anna Tinti, Biochemistry Dept., Univ. of Bologna, Via Belmeloro, Bologna, Italy, Armida Torreggiani, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattivita, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy)