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Biological inorganic chemistry :

Crichton, Robert R.

Biological inorganic chemistry : an introduction / Robert R. Crichton with the collaboration of Fré́́deric Lallemand, Ioanna S.M. Psalti and Roberta J. Ward. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2008. - xii, 369 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780444527400 (pbk.) 0444527400 (pbk.)

2010279124

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013828849 Uk


Bioinorganic chemistry.
Chemistry, Bioinorganic.
Chimie bioinorganique.

QP531 / .C75 2008

612.01524