Construction of an enterobactin analogue with symmetrically arranged monomer subunits of ferritin
Nakajima, H., Kondo, M., Nakane, T., Abe, S., Nakao, T., Watanabe, Y., Ueno, T.(2015) Chem Commun (Camb) 51: 16609-16612
- PubMed: 26404005 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc06904a
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5AXS, 5CZU - PubMed Abstract: 
A set of three catecholamide ligands mimicking the structure of enterobactin was constructed on ferritin, where the 3-fold symmetric arrangement of the monomer subunits served as a foundation to form a coordination space. Similar to enterobactin, the ligands showed strong affinity for the ferric ion and formed a tris-catechoyl complex. Crystallography revealed that the complex was embedded in the entrance of the 3-fold axis channel.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Division of Molecular Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan. [email protected].