Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Sigel Group)
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2009

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	Peer-Reviewed Publications
	2009
47.	"Controlling Ribozyme Activity by Metal Ions" Joachim Schnabl, Roland K. O. Sigel* Curr. Op. Chem. Biol., 2009, in press.
46.	"Solution structure of a DNA double helix with consecutive metal-mediated base pairs" Silke Johannsen, Nicole Megger, Dominik Böhme, Roland K. O. Sigel,* Jens Müller* Nature Chem., 2009, in press.
45.	"Ca²⁺ Induces the Formation of Two Distinct Subpopulations of Single Group II Intron Molecules" Miriam Steiner, David Rueda, Roland K. O. Sigel Angew. Chem., 2009, available online, doi: 10.1002/ange.200903809.
44.	"Exploring Metal Ion Coordination to Nucleic Acids by NMR" Silke Johannsen, Maximiliane M. T. Korth, Joachim Schnabl, Roland K. O. Sigel* Chimia, 2009, 63, 146-152. Invited contribution to the special issue "Young Academics in Switzerland"
43.	"Influence of Decreased Solvent Permittivity on the Structure and Magnesium(II)-Binding Properties of the Catalytic Domain 5 of a Group II Intron Ribozyme" Maya Furler, Bernd Knobloch, Roland K. O. Sigel* Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2009, 362, 771-776. Invited article for the special issue in honor of Bernhard Lippert, University of Dortmund
	2008
42.	"Divalent Metal Ions Promote the Formation of the 5'-Splice Site Recognition Complex in a Self-Splicing Group II Intron" Daniela Kruschel, Roland K. O. Sigel* J. Inorg. Biochem., 2008, 102, 2147-2154.
41.	"Effect of the Ribose versus 2'-Deoxyribose Residue on the Metal Ion-Binding Properties of Purine Nucleotides" Ariel Mucha, Bernd Knobloch, Malgorzata Jezowska-Bojczuk, Henryk Kozlowski, Roland K. O. Sigel* Dalton Trans., 2008, 5368 - 5377.
40.	"Single Molecule Studies of Group II Intron Ribozymes" Miriam Steiner, Krishanti S. Karunatilaka, Roland K. O. Sigel, David Rueda Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2008, 105, 13853-13858.
39.	"Divalent Metal Ions Tune the Self-Splicing Reaction of the Yeast Mitochondrial Group II Intron Sc.ai5γ" Michele C. Erat, Roland K. O. Sigel* J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2008, 13, 1025-1036.
38.	"Comparison of the Acid-Base Properties of Ribose and 2-Deoxyribose Nucleotides" Ariel Mucha, Bernd Knobloch, Malgorzata Jezowska-Bojczuk, Henryk Kozlowski, Roland K. O. Sigel* Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 14, 6663-6671.
37.	"The Corrin Moiety of Coenzyme B12 is the Determinant for Switching the btuB Riboswitch of E. coli" Sofia Gallo, Michael Oberhuber, Roland K. O. Sigel, Bernhard Kräutler ChemBioChem, 2008, 9, 1408-1414.
36.	"Using In Vitro Transcription to Construct Scaffolds for One-Dimensional Arrays of Mercuric Ions" Silke Johannsen, Susann Paulus, Nicole Düpre, Jens Müller, Roland K. O. Sigel J. Inorg. Biochem., 2008, 102, 1141-1151.
35.	"Discrimination in Metal Ion Binding to RNA Dinucleotides with a Terminal Oxygen or Sulfur in the Phosphate Diester Link (pUpU^3- and pUp(S)U^3-)" Bernd Knobloch, Barbara Nawrot, Andrzej Okruszek, Roland K. O. Sigel* Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 14, 3100-3109.
34.	"Metal Ion-Nucleic Acid Interactions" Roland K. O. Sigel* in Nucleic Acids from A to Z - A Concise Encyclopedia, Sabine Müller (Editor), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2008, 350 p. ISBN-10: 3-527-31211-0; ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31211-5.
	2007
33.	"Determination of the Intrinsic Affinities of Multiple Site-Specific Mg²⁺ Ions Coordinated to Domain 6 of a Group II Intron Ribozyme" Michele C. Erat, Roland K. O. Sigel* Inorg. Chem., 2007, 46, 11224-11234.
32.	"Binding Interaction of [Re(H₂O)₃(CO)₃]⁺ with the DNA Fragment d(CpGpG)" Fabio Zobi, Olivier Blacque, Roland K. O. Sigel, Roger Alberto Inorg. Chem., 2007*, 46, 10458-10460.
31.	"From Nucleotides to Ribozymes - A Comparison of Their Metal Ion-Binding Properties" Eva Freisinger, Roland K. O. Sigel* Coord. Chem. Rev., 2007, 251, 1834-1851.
30.	"Metal Ion-Coordinating Properties of the Dinucleotide 2'-Deoxyguanylyl(5'->3')-2'-deoxy-5'-guanylate, d(pGpG)^3-" Bernd Knobloch, Helmut Sigel, Andrzej Okruszek, Roland K. O. Sigel* Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 13, 1804-1814.
29.	"Solution Structure of Domain 6 from a Self-Splicing Group II Intron Ribozyme: A Mg²⁺ Binding Site is Located Close to the Stacked Branch Adenosine" Michele C. Erat, Oliver Zerbe, Thomas Fox, Roland K. O. Sigel* ChemBioChem, 2007, 8/3, 306-314. Selected for Cover illustration of this issue.
28.	"Alternative Roles for Metal Ions in Enzyme Catalysis and the Implications for Ribozyme Chemistry" Roland K. O. Sigel, Anna Marie Pyle Chem. Rev., 2007, 107, 97-113.
27.	"Complex Formation of Nickel(II) with Sugar Residues, Nucleobases, Phosphates, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids" Roland K. O. Sigel, Helmut Sigel Met. Ions. Life Sci., 2007, 2, 109-180.
26.	"Towards the Synthesis of Light Stable Coenzyme B₁₂ Analogs" Sofia Gallo, Eva Freisinger, Roland K. O. Sigel* Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2007, 360, 360-368. Invited article for the special issue "Inorganic Chemistry - The Next Generation
	2006
25.	"Acid-Base Properties of the Nucleic-Acid Model 2'-Deoxyguanylyl(5'®3')-2'-deoxy-5'-guanylate, d(pGpG)^3-, and of Related Guanine Derivatives" Bernd Knobloch, Helmut Sigel, Andrzej Okruszek, Roland K. O. Sigel* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2006, 4, 1085-1090.
24.	"Pyrazine as a Building Block for Molecular Architectures with PtII" Michael Willermann, Clodagh Mulcahy, Roland K. O. Sigel, Marta Morell Cerdà, Eva Freisinger, Pablo J. Sanz Miguel, Michael Roitzsch, Bernhard Lippert* Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 2093-2099.
	2005
23.	"Structure Determination of Catalytic RNAs and Investigations on Their Metal Ion Binding Properties" Michele Erat, Roland K. O. Sigel* CHIMIA, 2005, 59, 817-821.
22.	"In Vitro Transcription and Purification of RNAs of Different Size" Sofia Gallo, Maya Furler, Roland K. O. Sigel* CHIMIA, 2005, 59, 812-816.
21.	"Acid-Base and Metal Ion-Binding Properties of the RNA-Dinucleotide Uridylyl-(5'->3')-[5']uridylate (pUpU^3-)" Bernd Knobloch, Danuta Suliga, Andrzej Okruszek, Roland K. O. Sigel* Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 4163-4170.
20.	"Group II Intron Ribozymes and Metal Ions - a Delicate Relationship" Roland K. O. Sigel* Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2005, 12, 2281-2292.
	2004
19.	"Two Metal Ions Coordinated to a Purine Residue Tolerate Each Other Well!" Bernd Knobloch, Roland K. O. Sigel, Bernhard Lippert, Helmut Sigel Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2004, 43, 3793-3795 Angew. Chem., 2004, 116*, 3881-3883.
18.	"The solution structure of domain 5 of a group II intron ribozyme reveals a new RNA motif" Roland K. O. Sigel, Dipali G. Sashital, Dana L. Abramovitz, Samuel E. Butcher, Arthur G. Palmer III, Anna Marie Pyle Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., 2004, 11/2, 187-192.
	2003
17.	"Lanthanide Ions as Structural Probes for Metal-Ion Binding Sites in Ribozymes" Roland K. O. Sigel, Anna Marie Pyle Met. Ions Biol. Syst., 2003, 40, 477-512.
	2002
16.	"Hydrogen Bonding Patterns of 7,9-Dimethylguanine and its Transplatinum(II) Complexes" Roland K. O. Sigel, Eva Freisinger, Michele Abbate, Bernhard Lippert* Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2002, 339, 355-365.
15.	"N1 and N3 Linkage Isomers of Neutral and Deprotonated Cytosine with trans[(CH₃NH₂)₂Pt^II]" Wolfgang Brüning, Eva Freisinger, Michal Sabat, Roland K. O. Sigel, Bernhard Lippert* Chem. Eur. J., 2002, 8, 4681-4692.
	2001
14.	"Pt^II Binding to N1 of Cytosine: Strengthening the Watson-Crick Pair with Guanine and yet Confining Its pH Existence Range" Wolfgang Brüning, Roland K. O. Sigel, Eva Freisinger, Bernhard Lippert* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 3397-3399 Angew. Chem., 2001, 113, 3497-3500.
13.	"Metal-Modified Nucleobase Sextet: Joining Four Linear Metal Fragments (trans-a₂Pt^II and Six Model Nucleobases to an Exceedingly Stable Entity" Roland K. O. Sigel, Susan M. Thompson, Eva Freisinger, Frank Glahé, Bernhard Lippert* Chem.-Eur. J., 2001, 7, 1968-1980.
	2000
12.	"Metal Ion Binding Sites in a Group II Intron Core" Roland K. O. Sigel, Anand Vaidya, Anna Marie Pyle* Nature Struct. Biol., 2000, 7/12, 1111-1116.
11.	"Effects of N7-Methylation, N7-Platination, and C8-Hydroxylation of Guanine on H-Bond Formation with Cytosine: Platinum Coordination Strengthens the Watson-Crick Pair" Roland K. O. Sigel, Eva Freisinger, Bernhard Lippert* J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2000, 5, 287-299.
10.	"Heavy Metal Mutagenicity: Insights from Bioinorganic Model Chemistry" Jens Müller, Roland K. O. Sigel, Bernhard Lippert* J. Inorg. Biochem., 2000, 79, 265-269.
9.	"Hydrogen Bonding Between Adenine and 2,4-Difluorotoluene is Definitely not Present, as Shown by Concentration-Dependent NMR Studies" Kathrin S. Schmidt, Roland K. O. Sigel, Dmitri V. Fillipov, Gijs A. van der Marel, Bernhard Lippert, Jan Reedijk* New J. Chem., 2000, 195-197.
	1999
8.	"Platinum(II) Coordination to Guanine-N7: Enhancement of the Watson-Crick-Base-Pair with Cytosine" Roland K. O. Sigel, Bernhard Lippert* Chem. Commun., 1999, 2167-2168.
7.	"Metal-Modified Base Pairs Involving Different Donor Sites of Purine Nucleobases: trans-[a₂Pt(7,9-DimeG-N1)(9-EtGH-N7)]²⁺ and trans-[a₂Pt(7,9-DimeG-N1)(9-EtG-N7)]⁺ (a = NH₃ or CH₃NH₂; 9-EtGH = 9-ethylguanine; 7,9-DimeG = 7,9-dimethylguanine). Possible Relevance to Metalated DNA Triplex Structures" Roland K. O. Sigel, Michal Sabat, Eva Freisinger, Amanda Mower, Bernhard Lippert* Inorg. Chem., 1999, 38, 1481-1490.
6.	"Combining Four Different Model Nucleobases (Uracil, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine) via Metal Binding and H Bond Formation in a Single Compound" Roland K. O. Sigel, Susan M. Thompson, Eva Freisinger, Bernhard Lippert* Chem. Commun., 1999, 19-20.
	1998
5.	"Metalated Nucleobase Quartets: Dimerization of a Metal-Modified Guanine, Cytosine Pair of trans-(NH₃)₂Pt^II and a Case of CH---N Hydrogen Bonding" Roland K. O. Sigel, Eva Freisinger, Bernhard Lippert* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 12000-12007.
4.	"Creating Regular Arrangements of Nucleobases through Metal Ion Coordination and H Bond Formation" Bernhard Lippert, Pilar Amo-Ochoa, Wolfgang Brüning, Eva Freisinger, Marc-Sven Lüth, Susanne Meier, Cordula Meiser, Susanne Metzger, Holger Rauter, André Schreiber, Roland K. O. Sigel, Holger Witkowski Pure & Appl. Chem., 1998*, 70, 977-983.
3.	"If Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen Sites of Guanine are Blocked, H Bonding with Cytosine is via N2 and N3" Roland K. O. Sigel, Eva Freisinger, Bernhard Lippert* Chem. Commun., 1998, 219-220.
	1997
2.	"Stabilities and Structures of Metal Ion Complexes of Adenosine 5'-O-Thiomonophosphate (AMPS^2-) in Comparison with Those of Its Parent Nucleotide (AMP^2-) in Aqueous Solution" Roland K. O. Sigel, Bin Song, H. Sigel* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 744-755.
1.	"Acid-Base Properties of Adenosine 5'-O-Thiomonophosphate in Aqueous Solution" Bin Song, Roland K. O. Sigel, H. Sigel* Chem. Eur. J., 1997, 3, 29-33.
	Conference Reports and Further Publications
5.	"Nucleic Acid-Metal Ion Interactions" Roland K. O. Sigel* Chemistry World, 2009, issue 4, 60-61. -- Book recension: Nucleic Acid-Metal Ion Interactions, Nicholas V. Hud, RSC Publishing, 2009, 447 pp. ISBN 978-0-85404-195-4
4.	"Vanadium: The Versatile Metal" Roland K. O. Sigel* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 1888-1889. Angew. Chem., 2009, 121, 1920-1921. -- Book recension: The Versatile Metal, Kenneth Kustin, João Costa Pessoa, Debbie C. Crans (Eds.), Am. Chem. Soc. Washington DC, 2007, 448 pp. ISBN 978-0-84127-446-4
3.	"Graduate School of Chemical and Molecular Sciences Zurich (CMSZH)" Roland K. O. Sigel, Ferdinand Wild CHIMIA, 2008, 62, 130-131. ISSN: 0570-0833
2.	"In the Footsteps of Alfred Werner: The Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich" Roger Alberto, Greta R. Patzke, Roland K. O. Sigel, Heinz G. Berke* CHIMIA, 2008, 62, 111-113. ISSN: 0570-0833
1.	"Intimate Relationships Between Metal Ions and Nucleic Acids" Roland K. O. Sigel* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 654-656. Angew. Chem., 2007, 119, 664-666. Conference Review for <ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference in Inorganic Chemistry on Metal-Nucleic Acid Interactions, November 12-17, 2006, Athens, Greece."
	Books
1.	"Effect of Platinum(II) Coordination on the Acid-Base and Hydrogen-Bonding Properties of Nucleobases: Association Patterns in Solution and the Solid State" Roland K. O. Sigel Logos Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1999, 235 pp. ISBN: 3-89722-296-5
	MIBS and MILS Series
9.	"Organometallics in Environment and Toxicology" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2010, 7, in press. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 978-1-84755-177-1 ISSN: 1559-0836
8.	"Metal-Carbon Bonds in Enzymes and Cofactors" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2009, 6, 510 pp. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 978-1-84755-915-9 ISSN: 1559-0836
7.	"Metallothioneins and Related Chelators" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2009, 5, 514 pp. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 978-1-84755-899-2 ISSN: 1559-0836
6.	"Biomineralization. From Nature to Application" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2008, 4, 671 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. ISBN: 978-0-470-03525-2 ISSN: 1559-0836
5.	"TheUbiquitous Roles of Cytochrome P450 Proteins" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2007, 3, 652 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. ISBN: 978-0-470-01672-5 ISSN: 1559-0836
4.	"Nickel and Its Surprising Impact in Nature" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2007, 2, 702 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. ISBN: 978-0-470-01671-8 ISSN: 1559-0836
3.	"Neurodegenerative Diseases and Metal Ions" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Life Sci., 2006, 1, 474 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. ISBN: 978-0-470-01488-2 ISSN: 1559-0836
2.	"Biogeochemistry, Availability, and Transport of Metals in the Environment" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Biol. Syst., 2005, 44, 498 pp. Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA. ISBN: 0-8493-3820-4
1.	"Biogeochemical Cycles in Elements" Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K. O. Sigel (Editors) Met. Ions Biol. Syst., 2005, 43, 301 pp. Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA. ISBN: 0-8493-3807-7

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