In Memoriam: Carl J. Carrano : July 14, 1950-January 26, 2022

Overview

Journal Biometals

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2025 Mar 12

PMID 40072689

Authors

Frithjof C Kupper

Eleanor Carrano

Kenneth N Raymond

Eric Miller

Ricardo Cruz-Lopez

Ana Mijovilovich

Kyoko Yarimizu

Andrew Cooksy

Wes Harris

Shady A Amin

Alison Butler

John C Carrano

Affiliations

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Abstract

This article is a celebration of the life and work of Carl J. Carrano who, from a childhood in Long Island, New York, built a career in bioinorganic chemistry, especially in the context of metal uptake and halogen metabolism in microbes and marine organisms.

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Amin S, Kupper F, Green D, Harris W, Carrano C . Boron binding by a siderophore isolated from marine bacteria associated with the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum. J Am Chem Soc. 2007; 129(3):478-9. DOI: 10.1021/ja067369u. View

Amin S, Green D, Kupper F, Carrano C . Vibrioferrin, an unusual marine siderophore: iron binding, photochemistry, and biological implications. Inorg Chem. 2009; 48(23):11451-8. DOI: 10.1021/ic9016883. View

Austen J, McConnell S, Carrano C, Tsutsul M . Intracellular localization of meso-Tetra(p-sulfophenyl)porphine: a potential tumor localizing agent. Cancer Treat Rep. 1978; 62(4):511-8. View

Bottger L, Miller E, Andresen C, Matzanke B, Kupper F, Carrano C . Atypical iron storage in marine brown algae: a multidisciplinary study of iron transport and storage in Ectocarpus siliculosus. J Exp Bot. 2012; 63(16):5763-72. PMC: 3467295. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers225. View

Carrano C, Raymond K . Coordination chemistry of microbial iron transport compounds: rhodotorulic acid and iron uptake in Rhodotorula pilimanae. J Bacteriol. 1978; 136(1):69-74. PMC: 218633. DOI: 10.1128/jb.136.1.69-74.1978. View

Carrano C, Tsutsui M, McConnell S . Localization of meso-tetra(p-sulfophenyl)porphine in murine sarcoma virus-induced tumor-bearing mice. Cancer Treat Rep. 1977; 61(7):1297-300. View

Carrano C, Tsutsui M, McConnell S . Tumor localizing agents: the transport of meso-tetra(p-sulfophenyl) porphine by Vero and HEp-2 cells in vitro. Chem Biol Interact. 1978; 21(2-3):233-48. DOI: 10.1016/0009-2797(78)90022-4. View

Carrano C, Drechsel H, Kaiser D, Jung G, Matzanke B, Winkelmann G . Coordination Chemistry of the Carboxylate Type Siderophore Rhizoferrin: The Iron(III) Complex and Its Metal Analogs. Inorg Chem. 1996; 35(22):6429-6436. DOI: 10.1021/ic960526d. View

Cock J, Sterck L, Rouze P, Scornet D, Allen A, Amoutzias G . The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae. Nature. 2010; 465(7298):617-21. DOI: 10.1038/nature09016. View

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Gonzales J, Tymon T, Kupper F, Edwards M, Carrano C . The potential role of kelp forests on iodine speciation in coastal seawater. PLoS One. 2017; 12(8):e0180755. PMC: 5553931. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180755. View

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Harris W, Amin S, Kupper F, Green D, Carrano C . Borate binding to siderophores: structure and stability. J Am Chem Soc. 2007; 129(40):12263-71. DOI: 10.1021/ja073788v. View

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Hartnett A, Bottger L, Matzanke B, Carrano C . Iron transport and storage in the coccolithophore: Emiliania huxleyi. Metallomics. 2012; 4(11):1160-6. DOI: 10.1039/c2mt20144e. View

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Hartnett A, Bottger L, Matzanke B, Carrano C . A multidisciplinary study of iron transport and storage in the marine green alga Tetraselmis suecica. J Inorg Biochem. 2012; 116:188-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2012.06.009. View

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Hickford S, Kupper F, Zhang G, Carrano C, Blunt J, Butler A . Petrobactin sulfonate, a new siderophore produced by the marine bacterium Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus. J Nat Prod. 2004; 67(11):1897-9. DOI: 10.1021/np049823i. View

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Kupper F, Carrano C . Key aspects of the iodine metabolism in brown algae: a brief critical review. Metallomics. 2019; 11(4):756-764. DOI: 10.1039/c8mt00327k. View

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Kupper F, Carrano C, Kuhn J, Butler A . Photoreactivity of iron(III)-aerobactin: photoproduct structure and iron(III) coordination. Inorg Chem. 2006; 45(15):6028-33. DOI: 10.1021/ic0604967. View

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Kupper F, Carpenter L, McFiggans G, Palmer C, Waite T, Boneberg E . Iodide accumulation provides kelp with an inorganic antioxidant impacting atmospheric chemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008; 105(19):6954-8. PMC: 2383960. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709959105. View

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Kupper F, Carpenter L, Leblanc C, Toyama C, Uchida Y, Maskrey B . In vivo speciation studies and antioxidant properties of bromine in Laminaria digitata reinforce the significance of iodine accumulation for kelps. J Exp Bot. 2013; 64(10):2653-64. PMC: 3697951. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert110. View

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Kupper F, Miller E, Andrews S, Hughes C, Carpenter L, Meyer-Klaucke W . Emission of volatile halogenated compounds, speciation and localization of bromine and iodine in the brown algal genome model Ectocarpus siliculosus. J Biol Inorg Chem. 2018; 23(7):1119-1128. DOI: 10.1007/s00775-018-1539-7. View

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Mijovilovich A, Cloetens P, Lanzirotti A, Newville M, Wellenreuther G, Kumari P . Synchrotron X-rays reveal the modes of Fe binding and trace metal storage in the brown algae Laminaria digitata and Ectocarpus siliculosus. Metallomics. 2023; 15(10). PMC: 10588612. DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfad058. View