Metal binding ability of microbial natural metal chelators and potential applications

Covering: up to 2019 Siderophores are natural products which have attracted interest due to their ability to bind metal ions with high affinities. This review considers the complex formation of these natural chelators with all kinds of different metal and metalloid ions and links their chelating pro...

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Published inNatural product reports Vol. 37; no. 9; pp. 1262 - 1283
Main Authors Hofmann, Marika, Retamal-Morales, Gerardo, Tischler, Dirk
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 23.09.2020
Subjects
Chelating agents
Chelation
Complex formation
Metal ions
Metals
Microorganisms
Natural products
Siderophores
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Summary:Covering: up to 2019 Siderophores are natural products which have attracted interest due to their ability to bind metal ions with high affinities. This review considers the complex formation of these natural chelators with all kinds of different metal and metalloid ions and links their chelating properties to potential biotechnological applications and towards environmental context. Metallophores can chelate many different metal and metalloid ions next to iron, make them valuable for many applications.
Bibliography:Gerardo Retamal-Morales studied medical sciences in Universidad de Talca (Chile). He later received his PhD in Biotechnology from a double-degree program between Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile) with Prof. Gloria Levicán and TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) with Prof. Michael Schlömann. His research has been focused in the production and characterization of arsenic-binding siderophores from environmental bacteria.
Dirk Tischler (1982) studied applied natural science at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) and completed his doctoral studies on styrene monooxygenases under supervision of Prof. Michael Schlömann in 2012. He continued as junior group leader in the field of white biotechnology with emphasis on the prediction of novel biocatalysts and pathways from (meta)genome of soil bacteria. In January 2018 he became Junior Professor for Microbial Biotechnology and turned in 2019 to Prof. for Microbial Biotechnology at the Ruhr University Bochum. He focuses on the identification and application of novel biocatalysts, mostly related to redox biochemistry.
Marika Hofmann (1990) studied applied natural science at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany). Since 2015 she continued as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dirk Tischler and Prof. Michael Schlömann at the Environmental Microbiology group in Freiberg. Her research is focusing on microbial metallophores and their biosynthetic pathways.
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ISSN:0265-0568
1460-4752
DOI:10.1039/c9np00058e