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List of works by Mercè Capdevila

A new insight into metallothionein (MT) classification and evolution. The in vivo and in vitro metal binding features of Homarus americanus recombinant MT.

scientific article published on 18 June 2001

A new insight into the Ag+ and Cu+ binding sites in the metallothionein β domain

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Analysis of Metal-Binding Features of the Wild Type and Two Domain-Truncated Mutant Variants of Littorina littorea Metallothionein Reveals Its Cd-Specific Character.

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Binding of excess cadmium(II) to Cd7-metallothionein from recombinant mouse Zn7-metallothionein 1. UV-VIS absorption and circular dichroism studies and theoretical location approach by surface accessibility analysis

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Biomimetic Chemistry on Tandem Protein/Lipid Damages under Reductive Radical Stress

Biomphalaria glabrata Metallothionein: Lacking Metal Specificity of the Protein and Missing Gene Upregulation Suggest Metal Sequestration by Exchange Instead of through Selective Binding.

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Caenorhabditis elegans metallothionein isoform specificity--metal binding abilities and the role of histidine in CeMT1 and CeMT2.

scientific article published on 27 October 2009

Cantareus aspersus metallothionein metal binding abilities: the unspecific CaCd/CuMT isoform provides hints about the metal preference determinants in metallothioneins.

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Chemical foundation of the attenuation of methylmercury(II) cytotoxicity by metallothioneins.

scientific article published in April 2004

Chemically and biologically harmless versus harmful ferritin/copper-metallothionein couples.

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Cognate and noncognate metal ion coordination in metal-specific metallothioneins: the Helix pomatia system as a model

scientific article published in April 2014

Comparative Raman study of four plant metallothionein isoforms: Insights into their Zn(II) clusters and protein conformations

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Comparative genomics analysis of metallothioneins in twelve Drosophila species.

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Comparative insight into the Zn(II)-, Cd(II)- and Cu(I)-binding features of the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis MT1 metallothionein

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Comparative metal binding and genomic analysis of the avian (chicken) and mammalian metallothionein.

scientific article published on February 2006

Copper redox chemistry of plant frataxins

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Cryptococcus neoformans Copper Detoxification Machinery Is Critical for Fungal Virulence

scientific article published on March 13, 2013

Differential ESI-MS behaviour of highly similar metallothioneins

scientific article published on 04 November 2010

Dipalladium and diplatinum bis(µ-alkanethiolato) complexes with a planar M2S2ring

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Displacement of ligands in [PtBr2(en)](en = ethylenediamine) by β- and γ-mercaptoamines

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Diverse Evolution of [{Ph2P(CH2)nPPh2}Pt(μ-S)2Pt{Ph2P(CH2)nPPh2}] (n= 2, 3) Metalloligands in CH2Cl2

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Does Variation of the Inter-Domain Linker Sequence Modulate the Metal Binding Behaviour of Helix pomatia Cd-Metallothionein?

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Drosophila MTN: a metazoan copper-thionein related to fungal forms

scientific article published in February 2000

Electrochemical and theoretical study of the redox properties of transition metal complexes with {Pt2S2} cores

scientific article published on 09 February 2004

Evidence of Native Metal–S 2− –Metallothionein Complexes Confirmed by the Analysis of Cup1 Divalent‐Metal‐Ion Binding Properties

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Ferritin and metallothionein: dangerous liaisons

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

First evidence of fast S[bond]H...S proton transfer in a transition metal complex

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Full characterization of the Cu-, Zn-, and Cd-binding properties of CnMT1 and CnMT2, two metallothioneins of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans acting as virulence factors.

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Goodbye to Silvia Atrian

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Hinge Distortion in Platinum(II) Dimers with a Pt2S2 Ring. An ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Hints for metal-preference protein sequence determinants: different metal binding features of the five tetrahymena thermophila metallothioneins.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

His-containing plant metallothioneins: comparative study of divalent metal-ion binding by plant MT3 and MT4 isoforms.

scientific article published on 21 June 2014

Histone H3 Glutathionylation in Proliferating Mammalian Cells Destabilizes Nucleosomal Structure

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Identification of two frataxin isoforms in Zea mays: Structural and functional studies.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

In vivo copper- and cadmium-binding ability of mammalian metallothionein β domain

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

In vivo-folded metal-metallothionein 3 complexes reveal the Cu-thionein rather than Zn-thionein character of this brain-specific mammalian metallothionein.

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Independent metal-binding features of recombinant metallothioneins convergently draw a step gradation between Zn- and Cu-thioneins.

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Influence of chloride ligands on the structure of Zn- and Cd-metallothionein species

scientific article published in March 2005

Iron chemistry at the service of life.

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Is Ag(I) an adequate probe for Cu(I) in structural copper-metallothionein studies? The binding features of Ag(I) to mammalian metallothionein 1.

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Is MtnE, the fifth Drosophila metallothionein, functionally distinct from the other members of this polymorphic protein family?

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

MTO: the second member of a Drosophila dual copper-thionein system.

scientific article published in January 2003

Mammalian MT1 and MT2 metallothioneins differ in their metal binding abilities.

scientific article published in October 2013

Metagenomics analysis reveals a new metallothionein family: Sequence and metal-binding features of new environmental cysteine-rich proteins.

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Metal Dealing at the Origin of the Chordata Phylum: The Metallothionein System and Metal Overload Response in Amphioxus

scientific article published on August 14, 2012

Metal binding functions of metallothioneins in the slug Arion vulgaris differ from metal-specific isoforms of terrestrial snails

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Metal-Specificity Divergence between Metallothioneins of Nerita peloronta (Neritimorpha, Gastropoda) Sets the Starting Point for a Novel Chemical MT Classification Proposal

scientific article published in 2021

Metallomics reveals a persisting impact of cadmium on the evolution of metal-selective snail metallothioneins

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Metallothionein protein evolution: a miniassay.

scientific article published on 02 June 2011

Metallothionein-III prevents glutamate and nitric oxide neurotoxicity in primary cultures of cerebellar neurons.

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Metallothionein-protein interactions.

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Monitoring lactoferrin iron levels by fluorescence resonance energy transfer: a combined chemical and computational study

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

Monitoring of the metal displacement from the recombinant mouse liver metallothionein Zn(7)-complex by capillary zone electrophoresis with electrospray MS detection.

scientific article published in July 2002

Mouse metallothionein-1 and metallothionein-2 are not biologically interchangeable in an animal model of multiple sclerosis, EAE

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

New steroidal 7-azaindole platinum(II) antitumor complexes.

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Novel C,N-chelate rhodium(III) and iridium(III) antitumor complexes incorporating a lipophilic steroidal conjugate and their interaction with DNA.

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Novel potentiometric sensors based on polysulfone immobilized metallothioneins as metal-ionophores.

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

Pb(ii) binding to the brain specific mammalian metallothionein isoform MT3 and its isolated αMT3 and βMT3 domains

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Physiological relevance and contribution to metal balance of specific and non-specific Metallothionein isoforms in the garden snail, Cantareus aspersus.

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Plant metallothionein domains: functional insight into physiological metal binding and protein folding.

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Preface. Special Issue featuring articles from the Eleventh International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry.

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Raman study of in vivo synthesized Zn(II)-metallothionein complexes: structural insight into metal clusters and protein folding

scientific article published in December 2008

Recombinant synthesis of mouse Zn3-beta and Zn4-alpha metallothionein 1 domains and characterization of their cadmium(II) binding capacity

scientific article published in August 1997

Replacement of terminal cysteine with histidine in the metallothionein α and β domains maintains its binding capacity

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Rhenium and technetium tricarbonyl, {M(CO)3} (+) (M = Tc, Re), binding to mammalian metallothioneins: new insights into chemical and radiopharmaceutical implications.

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Shaping mechanisms of metal specificity in a family of metazoan metallothioneins: evolutionary differentiation of mollusc metallothioneins

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Squaramide-Based Pt(II) Complexes as Potential Oxygen-Regulated Light-Triggered Photocages

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

Structural Adaptation of a Protein to Increased Metal Stress: NMR Structure of a Marine Snail Metallothionein with an Additional Domain

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Structural Lesions of Proteins Connected to Lipid Membrane Damages Caused by Radical Stress: Assessment by Biomimetic Systems and Raman Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Structural study of the zinc and cadmium complexes of a type 2 plant (Quercus suber) metallothionein: Insights by vibrational spectroscopy

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Studying the interactions of a platinum(II) 9-aminoacridine complex with proteins and oligonucleotides by ESI-TOF MS.

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Studying the reactivity of "old" Cu(II) complexes for "novel" anticancer purposes

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Sunflower metallothionein family characterisation. Study of the Zn(II)- and Cd(II)-binding abilities of the HaMT1 and HaMT2 isoforms.

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of [Pt2(μ-H)(μ-S)(dppe)2]+, a diplatinum cation with hydrido and sulphido ligands bridging a PtPt bond

The Cd(II)-binding abilities of recombinant Quercus suber metallothionein: bridging the gap between phytochelatins and metallothioneins

scientific article published on 15 May 2007

The Fungus Tremella mesenterica Encodes the Longest Metallothionein Currently Known: Gene, Protein and Metal Binding Characterization.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

The Solution Structure and Dynamics of Cd-Metallothionein from Helix pomatia Reveal Optimization for Binding Cd over Zn

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

The Zn- and Cd-clusters of recombinant mammalian MT1 and MT4 metallothionein domains include sulfide ligands

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The four members of the Drosophila metallothionein family exhibit distinct yet overlapping roles in heavy metal homeostasis and detoxification

scientific article published in June 2006

The metal binding abilities of Megathura crenulata metallothionein (McMT) in the frame of Gastropoda MTs

scientific article published on 03 December 2011

The response of the different soybean metallothionein isoforms to cadmium intoxication.

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The sea urchin metallothionein system: Comparative evaluation of the SpMTA and SpMTB metal-binding preferences.

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

The zn- or cu-thionein character of a metallothionein determines its metal load when synthesized in physiological (metal-unsupplemented) conditions.

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Two Unconventional Metallothioneins in the Apple Snail <i>Pomacea bridgesii</i> Have Lost Their Metal Specificity during Adaptation to Freshwater Habitats

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Understanding the 7-Cys module amplification of C. neoformans metallothioneins: how high capacity Cu-binding polypeptides are built to neutralize host nutritional immunity.

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Understanding the interaction of an antitumoral platinum(II) 7-azaindolate complex with proteins and DNA.

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Varying iron release from transferrin and lactoferrin proteins. A laboratory experiment

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Zinc and cadmium complexes of a plant metallothionein under radical stress: desulfurisation reactions associated with the formation of trans-lipids in model membranes.

scientific article published in June 2009

Zinc(II) is required for the in vivo and in vitro folding of mouse copper metallothionein in two domains

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Zn- and Cd-Metallothionein Recombinant Species from the Most Diverse Phyla May Contain Sulfide (S2−) Ligands

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Zn- and Cu-thioneins: a functional classification for metallothioneins?

scientific article published on 08 August 2011