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050 0 0 _aMED QP531
_bC75
100 1 _aCrichton, Robert R.
245 1 0 _aBiological inorganic chemistry : an introduction
260 _aAmsterdam
_aBoston
_bElsevier
_c2008
300 _axii, 369 p.
_bill.
505 0 _aAn 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.
650 0 _aBioinorganic chemistry.
650 2 _aChemistry, Bioinorganic.
650 7 _aChimie bioinorganique.
942 _cBK
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