Plenary Lecture

Helmut Beinert

Iron-sulfur clusters: Ancient structures, still full of surprises

 

O₂ Metabolism I

Gerald T. Babcock, Cecilia Tommos, Curtis Hoganson Denis Proshlyakov, and Michelle Pressler

The water/oxygen cycle in photosynthesis and respiration

 

Shinya Yoshikawa, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, and Tomitake Tsukihara

X-ray structure and reaction mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase

 

Yoshinori Naruta, Takao Sasaki, Nobufumi Nakamura, Nobuo Kawato, Fumito Tani, and Yoshimitsu Tachi

Dioxygen activation with Fe-Cu heterodinuclear complexes: Understanding the O₂ redox chemistry in cytochrome c oxidase

Ribozymes

Victoria J. DeRose, T. Edward Horton, M. Maderia, Susan R. Morrissey, Laura M. Hunsicker, and Tomasz Wasowicz

Spectroscopic studies of metal-RNA interactions in the hammerhead ribozyme

 

Christian Berens, Eric Westhof, Dolly Wittberger, and Renée Schroeder

Probing for metal ion binding sites in RNA with the Fenton reaction

 

Tomoko Kuwabara, Masaki Warashina, and Kazunari Taira,

Maxizyme, a novel allosterically controllable metal ion-dependent ribozyme

Nitrogen Fixation

Karin L. C. Grönberg, Carol A Gormal, Marcus C. Durrant, Barry E. Smith, and Richard A. Henderson

Studies on the reactivity of extracted FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase

 

Masanobu Hidai

Chemical nitrogen fixation: protonation of coordinated dinitrogen with coordinated dihydrogen or bridging hydrosulfido ligands

 

Dimitri Coucouvanis, Jaehong Han, and Konstantinos D. Demadis

Recent progress in the synthesis of structural and functional analogs for the nitrogen-fixing Fe/Mo/S site of nitrogenase

 

 

O₂ Metabolism II

Bernt Krebs, Christoph Eichen, Carsten Gerdemann, Klaudia Büldt-Karentzopoulos, Annette Magrini, Thomas Klabunde, and James C. Sacchettini

Crystal structure, sequence, and mechanism of catechol oxidase

 

R. David Britt, Jeffrey M. Peloquin, Kristy A. Campbell, Keri Clemens, Marc Evanchik

EPR characterization of the photosystem II oxygen evolving complex

 

Stenbjörn Styring

Light-induced ruthenium-tyrosine-manganese chemistry mimicking donor-side reactions in the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II

 

Julian Limburg, John S. Vrettos, Louise M. Liable-Sands, Arnold L. Rheingold, Robert H. Crabtree, and Gary W. Brudvig

A functional model for O-O bond formation by the O₂-evolving complex in photosystem II

Dinuclear Hydrolases

Jik Chin, Nicholas H. Williams, Brent Stranix, Dan Williams

Structure and nuclease activity of simple dinuclear metal complexes: Quantitative dissection of the role of metal ions

 

Alejandro J. Vila, Julia A. Cricco, Rodolfo M. Rasia, Elena G. Orellano, and Eduardo A. Ceccarelli

Metallo-b-lactamases: does it take two to tango?

 

Frank M. Raushel

Harnessing the catalytic potential of the binuclear metal center from phosphotriesterase

 

Frank Rusnak

Redox dependence of calcineurin phosphatase activity and its implications for catalysis and in vivo regulation

 

Metal Metabolism I

Dagmar Ringe, John R. Murphy, and André White

Metal-ion regulation of transcription: the diphtheria toxin repressor

 

Elizabeth C. Theil, A. Rene Tipton, and Hidenori Takagi

Ferritin &emdash; new twists in iron uptake and release

 

David M. Lawson, Laure Delarbre, Clare E. M. Williams, Daniel J. White, Lesley A. Mitchenall, and Richard N. Pau

Molybdenum transport and processing in Azotobacter vinelandii

 

Hilary A. Godwin, John C. Payne, Marc A. ter Horst, Elizabeth S. Claudio, and Matthew K. Zart

Why is lead toxic? Unraveling the molecular mechanism(s) of lead poisoning

 

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