Biological Inorganic Chemistry : an Introduction.

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Main Author: Crichton, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier, 2007
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Biological Inorganic Chemistry An Introduction; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. An Overview of Metals in Biology; Chapter 2. Basic Coordination Chemistry for Biologists; Chapter 3. Biological Ligands for Metal Ions; Chapter 4. Structural and Molecular Biology for Chemists; Chapter 5. An Overview of Intermediary Metabolism and Bioenergetics; Chapter 6. Methods to Study Metals in Biological Systems; Chapter 7. Metal Assimilation Pathways; Chapter 8. Transport, Storage and Homeostasis of Metal Ions; Chapter 9. Sodium and Potassium--Channels and Pumps.
  • Chapter 10. Magnesium-Phosphate Metabolism and PhotoreceptorsChapter 11. Calcium: Cellular Signalling; Chapter 12. Zinc: Lewis Acid and Gene Regulator; Chapter 13. Iron: Essential for Almost All Life; Chapter 14. Copper: Coping with Dioxygen; Chapter 15. Nickel and Cobalt: Evolutionary Relics; Chapter 16. Manganese: Water Splitting, Oxygen Atom Donor; Chapter 17. Molybdenum, Tungsten, Vanadium and Chromium; Chapter 18. Metals in Brain.