Langbeschreibung
This guide serves both as an excellent course text for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, and as a reference for anyone working in this area. Already praised by specialists in the field, this text gives both an overview of biological inorganic chemistry and presents a detailed look at metal-ion containing biological systems.
Hauptbeschreibung
Can be used as both course text and reference text
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction and Text Overview.- PART A: OVERVIEWS OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY.- Bioinorganic Chemistry and the Biogeochemical Cycles.- Metal Ions and Proteins: Binding, Stability and Folding.- Special Cofactors and Metal Clusters.- Transport and Storage of Metal Ions in Biology.- Biominerals and Biomineralization.- Metals in Medicine.- PART B: METAL-ION CONTAINING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS.- Metal Ion Transport and Storage.- Hydrolytic Chemistry.- Electron Transfer, Respiration and Photosynthesis.- Oxygen Metabolism.- Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism.- Metalloenzymes with Radical Intermediates.- Metal Ion Receptors and Signaling.- PART C: TUTORIALS.- Tutorial I: Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Evolution.- Tutorial II: Fundamentals of Coordination Chemistry.- Appendices.- Index.