ISRN Biophysics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 124803, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/124803
Research Article

Density Functional Theory Study on Metal-Binding Energies for Human Serum Transferrin-Metal Complexes

Tetsuya Sakajiri,1 Hirofumi Yajima,2 and Takaki Yamamura1

1Faculty of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Morioka, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0183, Japan
2Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1–3 Kagurazaka, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan

Received 16 December 2011; Accepted 3 January 2012

Academic Editors: D. Bulone and P. G. Fajer

Copyright © 2012 Tetsuya Sakajiri et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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