@article{
author = "Bajic, Aleksandar and Zakrzewska, Joanna and Gođevac, Dejan and Anđus, Pavle and Jones, David R. and Spasić, Mihajlo and Spasojević, Ivan",
year = "2011",
abstract = "The cytoprotective activity of F16BP has been documented in severe conditions such as convulsions, reperfusion injury, septic shock, diabetic complications, hypothermia-induced injury, UV-provoked skin damage and in other processes including apoptosis and excitotoxicity. F16BP shows very efficient cytoprotective activity in astroglial cells exposed to H2O2-provoked oxidative stress and during neuronal injury caused by hypoxic conditions. As most of the aforementioned processes involve iron activity-related conditions, we investigated the ferric and ferrous iron binding properties of F16BP under physiological conditions using P-31 NMR and EPR spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cytoprotective F16BP activity is predominantly based on ferrous iron sequestration. P-31 NMR spectroscopy of F16BP employing paramagnetic properties of iron clearly showed that F16BP forms stabile complexes with Fe2+ which was verified by EPR of another divalent cation-Mn2+. On the other hand, F16BP does not sequester ferric iron nor does it increase its redox activity as shown by P-31 NMR and EPR spin-trapping. Therefore, F16BP may be beneficial in neurodegenerative and other conditions that are characterised by ferric iron stores and deposits.",
publisher = "Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford",
journal = "Carbohydrate Research",
title = "Relevance of the ability of fructose 1,6-bis(phosphate) to sequester ferrous but not ferric ions",
volume = "346",
number = "3",
pages = "416-420",
doi = "10.1016/j.carres.2010.12.008"
}