List of works by Wojciech Bal

13. Genotoxicity of Metal Ions: Chemical Insights

A Functional Role for Aβ in Metal Homeostasis? N-Truncation and High-Affinity Copper Binding.

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

A diadenosine 5',5''-P1P4 tetraphosphate (Ap4A) hydrolase from Arabidopsis thaliana that is activated preferentially by Mn2+ ions

scientific article

A direct determination of the dissociation constant for the Cu(II) complex of amyloid beta 1-40 peptide

scientific article published in February 2010

A dramatic change in the interaction of Cu(II) with bio-peptides promoted by SDS—a model for complex formation on a membrane surface

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

A formula for correlating pKa values determined in D2O and H2O.

scientific article

A thermodynamic and spectroscopic study of the complexes of the undecapeptide Substance P, of its N-terminal fragment and of model pentapeptides containing two prolyl residues with copper ions

A zinc-finger like metal binding site in the nucleosome.

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Ap4A is not an efficient Zn(II) binding agent. A concerted potentiometric, calorimetric and NMR study

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Application of Ni(II)-assisted peptide bond hydrolysis to non-enzymatic affinity tag removal

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Atomic resolution structure of a protein prepared by non-enzymatic His-tag removal. Crystallographic and NMR study of GmSPI-2 inhibitor.

scientific article

Aβ5-x Peptides: N-Terminal Truncation Yields Tunable Cu(II) Complexes

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Binding of Nickel(II) and Copper(II) to the N-Terminal Sequence of Human Protamine HP2

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Binding of transition metal ions to albumin: sites, affinities and rates

scientific article published on 26 June 2013

Biophysical analysis of the interaction of toxic metal ions and oxidants with the zinc finger domain of XPA.

scientific article

Co(II) and Cd(II) substitute for Zn(II) in the zinc finger derived from the DNA repair protein XPA, demonstrating a variety of potential mechanisms of toxicity

scientific article

Comparative studies of coordination properties of puromycin and puromycin aminonucleoside towards copper(II) ions

scientific article published on 03 July 2007

Complexes of Cu(II) with Asn-Ser-Phe-Arg-Tyr-NH2; an example of metal ion-promoted conformational organization which results in exceptionally high complex stability

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Contrasting effects of metal ions on S-nitrosoglutathione, related to coordination equilibria: GSNO decomposition assisted by Ni(II) vs stability Increase in the presence of Zn(II) and Cd(II).

scientific article published in March 2004

Coordination mode and oxidation susceptibility of nickel(II) complexes with 2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-monophosphate and l-histidine

scientific article published in November 2004

Coordination of heavy metals by dithiothreitol, a commonly used thiol group protectant.

scientific article published in March 2001

Coordination properties of dithiobutylamine (DTBA), a newly introduced protein disulfide reducing agent

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Coordination properties of tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine, a newly introduced thiol reductant, and its oxide

scientific article published in March 2003

Coordinative unsaturated CuI entities are crucial intermediates governing cell internalization of copper. A combined experimental ESI-MS and DFT study

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Copper Exchange and Redox Activity of a Prototypical 8-Hydroxyquinoline: Implications for Therapeutic Chelation.

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Copper Transporters? Glutathione Reactivity of Products of Cu-Aβ Digestion by Neprilysin

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Correction to: Reproducibility and accuracy of microscale thermophoresis in the NanoTemper Monolith: a multi laboratory benchmark study

scientific article published in 2021

Correction: Application of Ni(II)-Assisted Peptide Bond Hydrolysis to Non-Enzymatic Affinity Tag Removal.

scientific article published on 3 August 2012

Correlations between complexation modes and redox activities of Ni(II)-GSH complexes

scientific article published in July 2003

Cu transfer from amyloid-β to metallothionein-3: the role of the neurotransmitter glutamate and metallothionein-3 Zn(ii)-load states

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Cu(II) Binding to the Peptide Ala-His-His, a Chimera of the Canonical Cu(II)-Binding Motifs Xxx-His and Xxx-Zzz-His

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Cu(II) affinity for the Alzheimer's peptide: tyrosine fluorescence studies revisited.

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

Cu(II) binding by angiotensin II fragments: Asp-Arg-Val-Tyr-Ile-His and Arg-Val-Tyr-Ile-His. Competition between amino group and imidazole nitrogens in anchoring of metal ions

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Cu(II) complex formation by ACES buffer

scientific article published on 06 September 2013

Cu(II) complexation by "non-coordinating" N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES buffer).

scientific article published in August 2005

Cu(II) complexation does not affect oxytocin action on pregnant human myometrium in vitro

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Cu(II) complexation potentiates arginine vasopressin action on nonpregnant human myometrium in vitro.

scientific article

CuII Binding Properties of N-Truncated Aβ Peptides: In Search of Biological Function

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Cysteine and glutathione trigger the Cu-Zn swap between Cu(ii)-amyloid-β4-16 peptide and Zn7-metallothionein-3.

scientific article

DNA and RNA damage by Cu(II)-amikacin complex

scientific article published in November 2002

Damage of zinc fingers in DNA repair proteins, a novel molecular mechanism in carcinogenesis

scientific article

Determination of the stability constants and oxidation susceptibility of nickel(II) complexes with 2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-triphosphate and L-histidine

scientific article published on 5 January 2005

Differential zinc and DNA binding by partial peptides of human protamine HP2

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Dual catalytic role of the metal ion in nickel-assisted peptide bond hydrolysis

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Dysregulated Zn2+ homeostasis impairs cardiac type-2 ryanodine receptor and mitsugumin 23 functions, leading to sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ leakage.

scientific article

Effect of D-amino acid substitutions on Ni(II)-assisted peptide bond hydrolysis

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Effect of common buffers and heterocyclic ligands on the binding of Cu(II) at the multimetal binding site in human serum albumin

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Effects of simultaneous expression of heterologous genes involved in phytochelatin biosynthesis on thiol content and cadmium accumulation in tobacco plants

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Exploration of the Potential Role for Aβ in Delivery of Extracellular Copper to Ctr1

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Factors influencing compact-extended structure equilibrium in oligomers of aβ1-40 peptide--an ion mobility mass spectrometry study

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Filaggrin inhibits generation of CD1a neolipid antigens by house dust mite-derived phospholipase

scientific article published on February 2016

Formation of highly stable multinuclear AgnSn clusters in zinc fingers disrupts their structure and function

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Genotoxicity of metal ions: chemical insights

scientific article published on January 2011

Gly-His-Thr-Asp-Amide, an Insulin-Activating Peptide from the Human Pancreas Is a Strong Cu(II) but a Weak Zn(II) Chelator

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Hierarchical binding of copperII to N-truncated Aβ4-16 peptide

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

His6, His13, and His14 residues in Aβ 1-40 peptide significantly and specifically affect oligomeric equilibria

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Human annexins A1, A2, and A8 as potential molecular targets for Ni(II) ions.

scientific article published on 20 October 2014

Human serum albumin coordinates Cu(II) at its N-terminal binding site with 1 pM affinity

scientific article published on 22 May 2007

Induction of a secondary structure in the N-terminal pentadecapeptide of human protamine HP2 through Ni(II) coordination. An NMR study

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Induction of oxidative DNA damage by carcinogenic metals

scientific article

Interaction of selenium compounds with zinc finger proteins involved in DNA repair

scientific article

Interactions of Nickel(II) with histones: interactions of Nickel(II) with CH3CO-Thr-Glu-Ser-His-His-Lys-NH2, a peptide modeling the potential metal binding site in the "C-Tail" region of histone H2A.

scientific article published in September 1998

Interactions of Zn(II) ions with three His-containing peptide models of histone H2A

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Interactions of α-Factor-1, a Yeast Pheromone, and Its Analogue with Copper(II) Ions and Low-Molecular-Weight Ligands Yield Very Stable Complexes

scientific article

Interplay between Copper, Neprilysin, and N-Truncation of β-Amyloid

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Key intermediate species reveal the Cu(II) exchange pathway in biorelevant ATCUN/NTS complexes

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Lead effects on protamine-DNA binding

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Lead interaction with human protamine (HP2) as a mechanism of male reproductive toxicity

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

May GSH and L-His contribute to intracellular binding of zinc? Thermodynamic and solution structural study of a ternary complex

scientific article published in March 2003

Mechanism of nickel assault on the zinc finger of DNA repair protein XPA.

scientific article

Mediation of oxidative DNA damage by nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes with the N-terminal sequence of human protamine HP2

Mixed ligand Cu2+ complexes of a model therapeutic with Alzheimer's amyloid-β peptide and monoamine neurotransmitters

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Molecular mechanism of hydrogen peroxide conversion and activation by Cu(II)-amikacin complexes.

scientific article

Monomethylarsonous acid destroys a tetrathiolate zinc finger much more efficiently than inorganic arsenite: mechanistic considerations and consequences for DNA repair inhibition

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N-terminal Cu Binding Motifs Xxx-Zzz-His (ATCUN) and Xxx-His and their derivatives: Chemistry, Biology and Medicinal Applications.

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Ni(ii) ions cleave and inactivate human alpha-1 antitrypsin hydrolytically, implicating nickel exposure as a contributing factor in pathologies related to antitrypsin deficiency

scientific article published on April 2015

Ni<sup>2+</sup>-Assisted Hydrolysis May Affect the Human Proteome; Filaggrin Degradation <i>Ex Vivo</i> as an Example of Possible Consequences

scientific article published on 10 March 2022

Nickel(ii)-promoted specific hydrolysis of zinc finger proteins

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Numerical Simulations Reveal Randomness of Cu(II) Induced Aβ Peptide Dimerization under Conditions Present in Glutamatergic Synapses

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Oligopeptides Generated by Neprilysin Degradation of β-Amyloid Have the Highest Cu(II) Affinity in the Whole Aβ Family

scientific article published on 24 December 2018

On the ability of CuAβ1-x peptides to form ternary complexes: Neurotransmitter glutamate is a competitor while not a ternary partner

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Overexpression of genes involved in phytochelatin biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: effects on growth, cadmium accumulation and thiol level.

scientific article published in January 2005

Overexpression of genes involved in phytochelatin biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: effects on growth, cadmium accumulation and thiol level.

scientific article published in 2005

Overexpression of phytochelatin synthase in tobacco: distinctive effects of AtPCS1 and CePCS genes on plant response to cadmium

scientific article published on 7 May 2008

Oxidative reactivity of Cu-TESHHK- and its alanine analogues

scientific article published on 4 May 2005

Oxidative stress level in the testes of mice and rats during nickel intoxication.

scientific article published in February 2012

Peptide Bond Cleavage by Ni(II) Ions within the Nuclear Localization Signal Sequence

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Peptide bond cleavage in the presence of Ni-containing particles

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Physiological levels of glutathione enhance Zn(II) binding by a Cys4 zinc finger

scientific article

Potentiometric and spectroscopic studies of the Cu(II) complexes of Ala-Arg8-vasopressin and oxytocin: two vasopressin-like peptides

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

Quantitative electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of zinc finger oxidation: the reaction of XPA zinc finger with H(2)O(2).

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Reaction of the XPA zinc finger with S-nitrosoglutathione

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Redox modifications of the C-terminal cysteine residue cause structural changes in S100A1 and S100B proteins.

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Resistance of Cu(Aβ4-16) to Copper Capture by Metallothionein-3 Supports a Function for the Aβ4-42 Peptide as a Synaptic Cu(II) Scavenger

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Revised coordination model and stability constants of Cu(II) complexes of tris buffer

scientific article published on 4 December 2013

Revised stability constant, spectroscopic properties and binding mode of Zn(II) to FluoZin-3, the most common zinc probe in life sciences.

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Revisiting Mitochondrial pH with an Improved Algorithm for Calibration of the Ratiometric 5(6)-carboxy-SNARF-1 Probe Reveals Anticooperative Reaction with H+ Ions and Warrants Further Studies of Organellar pH.

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Salivary histatin-5, a physiologically relevant ligand for Ni(II) ions

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Selective control of Cu(II) complex stability in histidine peptides by β-alanine

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

Selective peptide bond hydrolysis of cysteine peptides in the presence of Ni(II) ions

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Selenocysteine containing analogues of Atx1-based peptides protect cells from copper ion toxicity

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Sequence-Specific Cu(II)-Dependent Peptide Bond Hydrolysis: Similarities and Differences with the Ni(II)-Dependent Reaction

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Sequence-specific Ni(II)-dependent peptide bond hydrolysis for protein engineering. Combinatorial library determination of optimal sequences

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Sequence-specific Ni(II)-dependent peptide bond hydrolysis for protein engineering: active sequence optimization

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Sequence-specific Ni(II)-dependent peptide bond hydrolysis for protein engineering: reaction conditions and molecular mechanism

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Sequence-specific Ni(II)-dependent peptide bond hydrolysis in a peptide containing threonine and histidine residues.

scientific article published on 22 November 2006

Short peptides are not reliable models of thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the N-terminal metal binding site in serum albumin

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Spectroscopic and thermodynamic determination of three distinct binding sites for Co(II) ions in human serum albumin

scientific article published on 3 May 2009

Stochastic or Not? Method To Predict and Quantify the Stochastic Effects on the Association Reaction Equilibria in Nanoscopic Systems

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Structure-function relationships in glutathione and its analogues

scientific article

Studies of zinc(II) and nickel(II) complexes of GSH, GSSG and their analogs shed more light on their biological relevance

scientific article published on January 2004

Ternary Cu(II) Complex with GHK Peptide and Cis-Urocanic Acid as a Potential Physiologically Functional Copper Chelate

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Ternary Zn(II) Complexes of FluoZin-3 and the Low Molecular Weight Component of the Exchangeable Cellular Zinc Pool

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Ternary Zn(II) Complexes of Fluorescent Zinc Probes Zinpyr-1 and Zinbo-5 with the Low Molecular Weight Component of Exchangeable Cellular Zinc Pool

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Ternary complex formation and competition quench fluorescence of ZnAF family zinc sensors

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

The C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors are likely targets for Ni(II) toxicity

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

The Cu(II) affinity of the N-terminus of human copper transporter CTR1: Comparison of human and mouse sequences.

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

The Cu(II) complex of Abeta40 peptide in ammonium acetate solutions. Evidence for ternary species formation

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

The Cu(II)/Abeta/human serum albumin model of control mechanism for copper-related amyloid neurotoxicity

scientific article published in February 2010

The N-terminal 14-mer model peptide of human Ctr1 can collect Cu(ii) from albumin. Implications for copper uptake by Ctr1

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

The Palladium(II) Complex of A<i>β</i><sub>4-16</sub> as Suitable Model for Structural Studies of Biorelevant Copper(II) Complexes of N-Truncated Beta-Amyloids

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

The Reactions of H2O2 and GSNO with the Zinc Finger Motif of XPA. Not A Regulatory Mechanism, But No Synergy with Cadmium Toxicity

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

The Sub-picomolar Cu2+ Dissociation Constant of Human Serum Albumin

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

The aggregation pattern of Aβ1-40 is altered by the presence of N-truncated Aβ4-40 and/or Cu(II) ions in a similar way via ionic interactions

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

The binding constant for amyloid Abeta40 peptide interaction with human serum albumin

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

The final frontier of pH and the undiscovered country beyond

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The impact of synthetic analogs of histidine on copper(II) and nickel(II) coordination properties to an albumin-like peptide. Possible leads towards new metallodrugs

scientific article published on 02 June 2014

The novel compound PBT434 prevents iron mediated neurodegeneration and alpha-synuclein toxicity in multiple models of Parkinson's disease

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The octapeptidic end of the C-terminal tail of histone H2A is cleaved off in cells exposed to carcinogenic nickel(II).

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The presence of Tau protein in blood as a potential prognostic factor in stroke patients

scientific article published in October 2016

The role of chromatin damage in nickel-induced carcinogenesis. A review of recent developments

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The unusual behavior of the inhibitor S(+)(1-amino-2-phenylethyl)phosphonic acid towards carboxypeptidase A

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

Thermodynamic study of Cu2+ binding to the DAHK and GHK peptides by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) with the weaker competitor glycine

article published in 2011

Triggering Cu-coordination change in Cu(ii)-Ala-His-His by external ligands

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Unbound position II in MXCXXC metallochaperone model peptides impacts metal binding mode and reactivity: Distinct similarities to whole proteins.

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Unusual Zn(II) Affinities of Zinc Fingers of Poly(ADP-ribose)Polymerase 1 (PARP-1) Nuclear Protein

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Zn(II) complexes of glutathione disulfide: structural basis of elevated stabilities

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cis-Urocanic acid as a potential nickel(II) binding molecule in the human skin

scientific article published on 01 February 2014