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Radiolabeling and in vivo evaluation of lanmodulin with biomedically relevant lanthanide isotopes

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Lanmodulin peptides – unravelling the binding of the EF-Hand loop sequences stripped from the structural corset

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Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum

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Tuning the lanthanide binding tags for preferential actinide chelation: an all atom molecular dynamics study

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Electronic Ground State, and Electron Spin Relaxation of Seven Lanthanide Ions Bound to Lanmodulin and the Bioinspired Chelator, 3,4,3‐LI(1,2‐HOPO)

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Lanthanide transport in angstrom-scale MoS 2 -based two-dimensional channels

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Lanthanides Gd and Tm Can Inhibit Carnitine/Acylcarnitine Transporter: Insights from All‐Atoms Simulations

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Not just a background: pH buffers do interact with lanthanide ions—a Europium(III) case study

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Bioinspired and biosynthetic integrated polymeric materials for the selective capture of heavy metal ions

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Periodicity of the Affinity of Lanmodulin for Trivalent Lanthanides and Actinides: Structural and Electronic Insights from Quantum Chemical Calculations

Mario Prejanò, Marirosa Toscano and Tiziana Marino

Inorg. Chem., 2023, 62, 7461
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Hydrophilic chelators for coordination and separation of radioactive f-block elements

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Rare earth elements in biology: From biochemical curiosity to solutions for extractive industries

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From rock to living systems: Lanthanides toxicity and biological interactions

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Enhanced rare-earth separation with a metal-sensitive lanmodulin dimer

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Impact of a Biological Chelator, Lanmodulin, on Minor Actinide Aqueous Speciation and Transport in the Environment

Gauthier J.-P. Deblonde, Keith Morrison, Joseph A. Mattocks, Joseph A. Cotruvo, Mavrik Zavarin and Annie B. Kersting

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QM Investigation of Rare Earth Ion Interactions with First Hydration Shell Waters and Protein-Based Coordination Models

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Synthesis of anhydrous lanthanum acetate. Analysis of it’s structural, thermal and electronic properties

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Lanpepsy is a novel lanthanide-binding protein involved in the lanthanide response of the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus

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Improved Recovery and Selectivity of Lanthanide-Ion-Binding Cyclic Peptide Hosts by Changing the Position of Acidic Amino Acids

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Minerals, 2022, 12, 148
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Minor Actinides Can Replace Essential Lanthanides in Bacterial Life**

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Emerging frontiers in rare-earth element chemical biology

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On membrane-based approaches for rare earths separation and extraction – Recent developments

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Harnessing a Genetically Engineered Self-Assembling Protein Biosorbent for Efficient and Selective Rare Earth Element Recovery

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Minor Actinides Can Replace Essential Lanthanides in Bacterial Life**

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Microbial-driven fabrication of rare earth materials

Huijing Cui, Fan Wang, Chao Ma, Hongjie Zhang and Kai Liu

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