MONDAY
Plenary Lecture
Helmut BeinertIron-sulfur clusters: Ancient structures, still full of surprises
O2 Metabolism I
Gerald T. Babcock, Cecilia Tommos, Curtis Hoganson Denis Proshlyakov, and Michelle PresslerThe water/oxygen cycle in photosynthesis and respiration
Shinya Yoshikawa, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, and Tomitake TsukiharaX-ray structure and reaction mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase
Yoshinori Naruta, Takao Sasaki, Nobufumi Nakamura, Nobuo Kawato, Fumito Tani, and Yoshimitsu TachiDioxygen 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 WasowiczSpectroscopic studies of metal-RNA interactions in the hammerhead ribozyme
Christian Berens, Eric Westhof, Dolly Wittberger, and Renée SchroederProbing 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. HendersonStudies on the reactivity of extracted FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase
Masanobu HidaiChemical 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. SacchettiniCrystal 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 WilliamsStructure 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 WhiteMetal-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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