Biological inorganic chemistry : an introduction - Crichton, Robert R. (Amsterdam Boston Elsevier, 2008)
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.
Keywords: Bioinorganic chemistry; Chemistry, Bioinorganic; Chimie bioinorganique