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Post-protein binding metal-mediated coupling of an acridine orange-based fluorophore

Santoro, Giuseppe ; Blacque, Olivier ; Zobi, Fabio

In: Metallomics, 2012, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 253-259

The HEW lysozyme (Lys) and the fac-[Re(CO)3(H2O)3]+ complex (1) are used as a simple model system for the description of a new approach to the labelling polypeptides with fluorescent tags. The strategy takes advantage of the reaction of an acridine orange-based fluorophore (AO) with the non-native metal fragment 1 hybridized on the enzyme. A synthetic methodology for the quantitative...

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Formation and Reactivity of [(tacn)-N-CO-Re(III)Br(CO)(2)](+) in Water : a Theoretical and Experimental Study

Zobi, Fabio ; Blacque, Olivier ; Steyl, Gideon ; Spingler, Bernhard ; Alberto, Roger

In: Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, vol. 48, no. 11, p. 4963-4970

The chemistry of [(tacn)-N-CO-Re(III)(CO)(2)Br]X (X = Cl or Br), obtained in good yield from the reaction of fac-[(tacn)Re(I)(CO)(3)]Br (1, tacn = 1,4,7- triazacyclononane) with X(2) in water, is described. The [(tacn)-N-CO-Re(III)(CO) (2)Br]X complex (2 with X = Br(-); 2a with X = BrCl(2)(-)), which we have previously communicated, is characterized by an unusual three-membered ring acyl amide...

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N-Nitrosamine-{cis--Re[CO]₂}²⁺ cobalamin conjugates as mixed CO/NO-releasing molecules

Santoro, Giuseppe ; Beltrami, Ruben ; Kottela, Emmanuel ; Blacque, Olivier ; Bogdanova, Anna Yu. ; Zobi, Fabio

In: Dalton Transactions, 2016, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 1504–1513

Mixed CO/NO-releasing molecules were prepared by conjugation of the 17-electron rhenium dicarbonyl cis-[Re(CO)₂Br₄]²⁻ complex to N-nitrosamine modified cyanocobalamin (B12) bio-vectors. The species were fully characterized by standard analytical techniques, including X-ray crystallography for cyanocobalamin-5′-O-pyrazine and (1) and its...