Biological inorganic chemistry : an introduction
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Robert R Crichton
- ناشر : Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780444527400
Description
An overview of metals in biology -- Basic coordination chemistry for biologists -- Biological ligands for metal ions -- Structural and molecular biology for chemists -- An overview of intermediary metabolism and bioenergetics -- Methods to study metals in biological systems -- Metal assimilation pathways -- Transport, storage and homeostatis of metal ions -- Sodium and potassium : channels and pumps -- Magnesium-phosphate metabolism and photoreceptors -- Calcium : cellular signalling -- Zinc : Lewis acid and gene regulator -- Iron : essential for almost all life -- Copper : coping with dioxygen -- Nickel and cobalt : evolutionary relics -- Manganese : water splitting, oxygen atom donor -- Molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium and chromium -- Metals in brain and their role in various neurodegenerative diseases -- Biomineralization -- Metals in medicine and the environment.
Contents include: 'An Overview of Metals in Biology', 'Structural and Molecular Biology for Chemists', 'Metal Assimilation Pathways', 'Biomineralisation' and 'Metals in Medicine and the Environment'.
