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SUBMITTER: Ivanov AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6379418 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ivanov Alexander S AS Parker Bernard F BF Zhang Zhicheng Z Aguila Briana B Sun Qi Q Ma Shengqian S Jansone-Popova Santa S Arnold John J Mayes Richard T RT Dai Sheng S Bryantsev Vyacheslav S VS Rao Linfeng L Popovs Ilja I
Nature communications 20190218 1
Over millennia, nature has evolved an ability to selectively recognize and sequester specific metal ions by employing a wide variety of supramolecular chelators. Iron-specific molecular carriers-siderophores-are noteworthy for their structural elegance, while exhibiting some of the strongest and most selective binding towards a specific metal ion. Development of simple uranyl (UO<sub>2</sub><sup>2+</sup>) recognition motifs possessing siderophore-like selectivity, however, presents a challenge. ...[more]