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Zhen Huang1, Xiao-an Zhang, Miquel Bosch, Sarah J Smith, Stephen J Lippard.
Abstract
We report the characterization of tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA) as a membrane-permeable zinc chelator for intercepting biological mobile zinc. Compared to N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine (TPEN), TPA chelates zinc with faster kinetics in cuvettes, live cells, and brain slices. TPA also is generally less toxic than TPEN in cell culture. Mechanistic analysis indicates that these improvements arise from both the electronic and steric properties of TPA including weaker metal-binding affinity, lower pKa, and smaller size. These results demonstrate that TPA chelation is a valuable addition to the methodologies available for investigating mobile zinc in biology.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23715510 PMCID: PMC3730853 DOI: 10.1039/c3mt00103b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Metallomics ISSN: 1756-5901 Impact factor: 4.526