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Interaction of Taurine With Metal Ions

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Taurine is capable of forming moderately stable complexes with copper(II) in which it acts as a monodentate, N-donor ligand. However, it binds to copper(II) less strongly than its carboxylic analogue β-alanine. This is probably due to the decreased basicity of the amino group on taurine. Since zinc(II) and copper(II) have similar coordination behaviour taurine should also bind to zinc(II) under physiological conditions. However taurine would not be expected to bind to class ′a′ metal ions such as calcium(II) and magnesium(II).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2

    E. C. O'Brien & K. B. Nolan

  2. Department of lnorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Lajos Kossuth University, H-4010, Debrecen, Hungary

    E. Farkas

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  1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Laura Della Corte

  2. University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona

    Ryan J. Huxtable

  3. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Giampietro Sgaragli

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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O'Brien, E.C., Farkas, E., Nolan, K.B. (2002). Interaction of Taurine With Metal Ions. In: Della Corte, L., Huxtable, R.J., Sgaragli, G., Tipton, K.F. (eds) Taurine 4. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 483. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46838-7_39

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