Spine title : Metal ions, volume 2. Bibliogr. Index.

Perspectives in supramolecular chemistry -- How metal ions may influence the structure and the biological activities of natural oligopeptides -- Interaction of copper with proteins -- 17O NMR studies of oxygenated hemoproteins and synthetic model compounds -- Physicochemical behaviour of empty and loaded unilamellar vesicles. Interactions with entrapped chromophores -- Magnesium-nucleic acid interactions in water -- Biological activity of copper (II) complexes in vitro. Species-activity correlation -- Effects of trivalent lanthanide ions on the solution structure of calf-thymus DNA. DNA condensation and structural properties -- Transketolase ternary complex. Application of a new method to identify metal binding site in transketolase. (cont) Effects of Mg supplement on a biological medium (milk) on ionic transport through a human leaky membrane -- Damaged axonal transport due to aluminum in uraemia -- From platinum nitriles to platinum blues -- Ternary complexes of cis- and trans-Pt (NH3) 2 Cl2 with aminoacids and nucleobases. Hydrophobic ligand-ligand interactions -- Cisplatin and the 5'-phosphate group of 5'-GMP and 5'-dGMP -- Kinetic, spectroscopic and LPLC studies of the interactions of antitumor ruthenium (III) complexes with serum proteins -- Alkali metal ion catalysis in nucleophilic displacement reactions at phosphorus centres -- Electrochemical and structural studies of manganese complexes in different oxidation state as a model for photosystem II -- Famotidine, antiulcerogenic agent and a potent ligand for metal ions. (cont) Labcatal and the research on trace elements -- Polymorphonuclear neutrophils aggregation induced by endothelin in presence and in absence of Ca and Mg -- Zinc exchange between erythrocytes and a medium with and without albumin at different temperatures -- Cu (III) complexes with functionalized b-cyclodextrins having sod-like activity -- Laser raman spectroscopic study of the growth-modulating tripeptide glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine free and bound to copper(II)-ion -- Raman spectra of copper complexes with long chain diamines -- Drug-metal interaction and metal-ions antagonism -- Comparative study of calf-thymus DNA binding to trivalent Al, Ga, Cr and Fe ions in aqueous solution -- Mg2+ ion binding to thiamin diphosphate in aqueous solutions. A novel method in detection of metal-coenzyme conformation in solutions. (cont) Effect of cadmium (II) ions on the association behaviour of guanosine 5'-monophosphate -- Normal coordinate analysis of the 1 -- Study of Rh2 (CF3CO2)4 complexes with adenosine and 5-AMP by NMR spectroscopy -- Complex formation of transition metals with b-alanylhistamine.