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Hydrodynamic Voltammograms Profiling of Metallothionein Fragment

ZÍTKA, Ondřej, Marketa KOMINKOVA, Sylvie SKALICKOVA, Helena SKUTKOVA, Ivo PROVAZNIK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Hydrodynamic Voltammograms Profiling of Metallothionein Fragment

Authors

ZÍTKA, Ondřej, Marketa KOMINKOVA, Sylvie SKALICKOVA, Helena SKUTKOVA, Ivo PROVAZNIK, Tomas ECKSCHLAGER, Marie STIBOROVA, Vojtech ADAM, Libuše TRNKOVÁ and René KIZEK

Edition

International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2012, 1452-3981

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Serbia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.729 in 2011

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000312934600015

Keywords in English

Metallothionein; Peptides; Flow Injection Analysis; High Throughput Analysis; Bioinformatics; Bioanalysis, Electrochemistry, Carbon Electrode; Sulfhydryl Group
Změněno: 20/8/2013 10:13, Mgr. Sylvie Dohnalíková

Abstract

V originále

Metallothionein is intracellular metal binding protein. It can bind essential zinc ions and also toxic metals like cadmium. In cancer research the problem of resistance of cancer cells against anticancer drugs was described. In this study we optimized an electrochemical method for exploring the differences in electrochemical signals in dependence on amino acid sequence in metallothionein. For this purpose we selected the number of fragments based on bioinformatic processing, synthesized them and made high throughput electrochemical analysis. Designed electrochemical analysis was based on automated flow injection analysis with amperometric detector using Coulochem III. Detection was carried out by glassy carbon electrode. We measured hydrodynamic voltammograms (HDVs) for 23 selected metallothionein fragments within the potential range from 100 to 1200 mV. We estimated the maxima of oxidation by processing of cumulative HDV. The oxidation maxima were dependent on amino acid composition, whereas fragments from human isoforms and some saltwater fishes' species had the highest maxima (900 mV). On the opposite side fragments of other mammals like horse, mouse and bull had the lowest potential maxima (700 mV). This should be related with the binding capacity for metal ions.