HENRYK - An endless source of metal coordination surprises.

The basic knowledge about biological inorganic chemistry, thermodynamics and metal binding sites of metalloproteins is crucial for the understanding of their metal binding-structure-function relationship. Metal-peptide complexes are useful and commonly used models of metal-enzyme active sites, among which copper and zinc models are one of the most extensively studied. HENRYK is a peptide sequence present in numerous proteins, and serves as a potentially tempting binding site for Cu and Zn.