
Biological Inorganic Chemistry
A New Introduction to Molecular Structure and Function
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Key Features
- Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Includes a thorough survey of metals in biological systems: in the human body, in medicine and in the environment
- Previous winner (Second Edition) of the 2013 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Text and Academic Authors Association
- Features new sections: an overview of the different functions of essential metal ions; toxic metals in diagnosis and therapeutics; crystal and ligand field theory and their limitations; molecular orbital theory; genetic and molecular biological approaches to study metals; more complex cofactors and their biosynthesis; photosynthetic oxidation of water; man-made environmental pollution; and metals as poisons
Readership
Chemistry researchers and students
Table of Contents
Part 1 Basic Principles
1. An overview of the role of metals in biology
2. Basic coordination chemistry for biologists
3. Structural and molecular biology for chemists
4. Biological ligands for metal ions
5. An overview of intermediary metabolism and bioenergetics
6. Methods which can be used to study metals in biology
7. Metal assimilation pathways
8. Transport, storage and homeostasis of metal ionsPart 2 Metals in Biology
9. Sodium and potassium – Channels and Pumps
10. Magnesium – phosphate metabolism and photoreception
11. Calcium – cellular signalling
12. Zinc – Lewis acid and gene regulator
13. Iron – essential for almost all life
14. Copper – Coping with Dioxygen
15. Nickel and Cobalt – evolutionary relics
16. Manganese –oxygen generation and detoxification
17. Molybdenum, Tungsten, Vanadium and Chromium
18. Non-metals in biology
19. BiomineralisationPart 3 Metals in Medicine and the Environment
20. Metals in brain function
21. Metal-based Neurodegeneration
22. Metals in medicine and metals as drugs
23. Metals in the environment
Product details
- No. of pages: 692
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: May 23, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128117415
- eBook ISBN: 9780128117422
About the Author
Robert Crichton
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RuifengLiu Mon Jun 03 2019
A good book
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