Woodhead Publishing, 2016. — 488 p. Biomineralization is a natural process by which living organisms form minerals in association with organic biostructures to form hybrid biological materials such as bone, enamel, dentine and nacre among others. Scientists have researched the fundamentals of these processes and the unique structures and properties of the resulting mineralized...
Springer, 2013. — 641 p. Metallomics and the Cell provides in an authoritative and timely manner in 16 stimulating chapters, written by 37 internationally recognized experts from 9 nations, and supported by more than 3000 references, several tables, and 110 illustrations, mostly in color, a most up-to-date view of the "metallomes" which, as defined in the "omics" world,...
Wiley, 2007. - 472 p. - This first comprehensive overview of the modern aspects of biomineralization represents life and materials science at its best: Bioinspired pathways are the hot topics in many disciplines and this holds especially true for biomineralization. Here, the editors - all well-known members of associations and prestigious institutes - have assembled an...
University Science Books, 2007. — 601 p. Biological Inorganic Chemistry' gives both an overview of biological inorganic chemistry & presents a detailed look at metal-ion containing biological systems. This comprehensive guide aims to serve both as a course text for advanced undergraduates & postgraduates & as a reference text for those working in this area. Introduction and...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011. — 330 p. — (Nutrition and Health) — ISBN: 3319461877 Our major objective and driving force in developing Nitrite and Nitrate in Human Health and Disease is to consolidate all the key research and knowledge in one volume in order to establish a framework based on the totality of evidence for nitrite and nitrate and the effects of these...
3rd Edition. — Academic Press, 2019. — 671 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811741-5. This book, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of the biochemical aspects of metals in living systems. The fascinating world of the role of metals in biology, medicine and the environment has progressed significantly since the very successful Second Edition of the book published in 2012....
Wiley, 2001. - 358 p. ISBN: 047149223X Iron is of fundamental importance for the growth, development and well being of almost all living organisms. Multiple biological systems have been developed for the uptake, utilisation, storage and homeostasis of iron in microbes, plants and mammals. e.g. Both iron deficiency and iron overload are found extensively in man: the intimate...
4th Edition. - Wiley, 2016. - 577 p. Iron is indispensable for the growth, development and well-being of almost all living organisms. Biological systems from bacteria, fungi and plants to humans have evolved systems for the uptake, utilisation, storage and homeostasis of iron. Its importance for microbial growth makes its uptake systems a natural target for pathogenic...
2nd Edition. - Elsevier, 2012. — 472 p. The revised and expanded second edition of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, winner of a 2013 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, presents an introduction to this exciting and dynamic field. An increasing understanding of the importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine, and the multiple roles of...
Robert R. Crichton - Biological inorganic chemistry. An introduction / Elsevier, first edition 2008, 370 p. 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...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2013. - 1091 p. Over the last three decades a lot of research on the role of metals in biochemistry and medicine has been done. As a result many structures of biomolecules with metals have been characterized and medicinal chemistry studied the effects of metal containing drugs. This new book (from the EIBC Book Series) covers recent advances made by top...
Springer, 2011. — 179 p. This book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of the element in ancient stars, and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. But free O 2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O 2 into the environment through the evolution of...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. — 424 p. This handbook provides a comprehensive account of materials science approaches to characterization of biominerals and biomimetic model systems. It covers state-of-the-art in the characterization of atomic and molecular structure, including the latest in diffraction, scattering, and spectroscopy, in addition to methods for imaging...
2 nd Edition. – Oxford University Press, UK, 2001. – 574 p. – ISBN10: 0198508484 Twenty inorganic elements, mostly metal ions, are consistently found in living systems and are essential for living systems to function correctly. The aim of this text is to discuss, describe, and explain the functional relevance of those elements: the reasons for their selection; the processes of...
Wiley, 2014. - 433 p. Understanding, identifying and influencing the biological systems are the primary objectives of chemical biology. From this perspective, metal complexes have always been of great assistance to chemical biologists, for example, in structural identification and purification of essential biomolecules, for visualizing cellular organelles or to inhibit specific...
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016. — 253 p. — (RSC Metallobiology Series). — ISBN: 1782628770. There has been enormous progress in our understanding of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes and relevant inorganic complexes of molybdenum and tungsten over the past twenty years. This set books provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field and documents the latest research....
Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016. — 340 p. — (RSC Metallobiology Series). — ISBN: 1782628789. There has been enormous progress in our understanding of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes and relevant inorganic complexes of molybdenum and tungsten over the past twenty years. This set books provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field and documents the latest research....
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016. 188 p. ISBN: 978-3-11-034880-4 Bio-Inorganic compounds are successfully applied as therapeutic agents since decades. Thus, scientist designed new metal complexes bearing biomolecules as ligands, investigating their potential as bioactive and therapeutic agents. This book presents a comprehensive overview on materials design, substance classes and...
2nd Edition. - Wiley, 2013. - 425 p. - The field of Bioinorganic Chemistry has grown significantly in recent years; now one of the major sub-disciplines of Inorganic Chemistry, it has also pervaded other areas of the life sciences due to its highly interdisciplinary nature. Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Elements in the Chemistry of Life, Second Edition provides a detailed...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey 2011. — 488 p. oBook ISBN: 978-1-118-09436-5 ePDF ISBN: 978-1-118-09434-1 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-118-09435-8 Copper-mediated biological oxidations offer a broad range of fundamentally important and potentially practical chemical processes that cross many chemical and pharmaceutical disciplines. This newest volume in the Wiley Series on...
Wien: Springer-Verlag, 2013. – 213 p. – ISBN10: 3709115493 The metabolism of sulfur especially by sulfurtransferases had been intensively studied in mid 1900’s. Three enzymes, cystathionine β–synthase (CBS), cystathionine γ–lyase (CSE) and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3MST) were found to have the capacity to produce H 2 S in vitro. However, H 2 S was recognized simply...
Elsevier B.V., 2007, 557 p., ISBN: 0444528059 Calcium is a varied traveler of signals control some aspects of cancellated state such as enrichment to create a newborn chronicle and programmed radiophone modification to modify it. Calcium homeostasis is strictly dominated by channels, shoe and exchangers functional as gates for metal entry and release. Given that metal is such a...
2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2004. - 277 p. This book is devoted to the current problems of biochemistry of inorganic polyphosphates(PolyPs), linear polymers of orthophosphoric acid, which are important regulatory biopolymers widespread in living organisms. The great progress in the field of PolyP biochemistry over the last 15 to 20 years has contributed much to the...
Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011. - 380 p. The book addresses a number of highly topical aspects of a fast-emerging field and emphasizes some important, but yet unclear, roles of water in biological processes, up to brain function. The main objective of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary contributions from leading authorities on the properties and roles of water in...
American Chemical Society, 2009. - 263 p. Bioinorganic Chemistry: Cellular Systems and Synthetic Models includes chapters describing cutting-edge work by renowned researchers in the field that fall within two main areas of current bioinorganic chemistry: (1) the study of cellular systems and processes that occur inside cells that are impacted by inorganic elements, e.g.,...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015. – 295 p. – ISBN: 3319143549 This book is written for researchers and students interested in the function and role of chemical elements in biological or environmental systems. Experts have long known that the Periodic System of Elements (PSE) provides only an inadequate chemical description of elements of biological,...
Walter de Gruyter, 2009. — 149 p. As this book is based on our own lab classes, we are grateful to the many co-workers, project students, and of course the students in the course itself, who gave feedback on our manuscripts, helped to improve the experiments, and in the end proof-read the manuscript. Small molecule activation and inactivation by metalloenzymes and their model...
Wiley, 2016. — 499 p. Latest developments, new insights and knowledge derived from speciation analysis in one unique compilation: The reader gets acquainted with relevant instrumental as well as application aspects of metallomics approaches, paving the road to understanding fate, pathway, and action of metals in environment and organisms. Upon an introductory chapter on...
Springer. 2012. 235 p. Since the early 1980s, the biochemical behavior of vanadium has been investigated extensively such as its potent inhibitory role for Na+/K+-ATPase and its participation in insulin-mimicking but also because of the more recent findings on the enzymes and compounds containing vanadium. In addition, knowledge of the medicinal applications of vanadium such as...
Springer-Verlag, 2014. — 159 p. — (Structure and Bonding 160) — ISBN: 3662435985. Chemical structure and bonding. The scope of the series spans the entire Periodic Table and addresses structure and bonding issues associated with all of the elements. It also focuses attention on new and developing areas of modern structural and theoretical chemistry such as nanostructures,...
Inorganic Chemistry - A Textbook Series - 225 p., 2008 Inorganic and Coordination Compounds of Vanadium Physico-chemical Methods for the Characterisation of Native and Model Vanadium Compounds Naturally Occurring Vanadium Compounds Influence of Vanadium Compounds on Cellular Functions
Springer, 2019. — 172 p. — (Structure and Bonding 179). — ISBN: 978-3-030-25896-2. This volume highlights recent progress on the fundamental chemistry and mechanistic understanding of metallocofactors, with an emphasis on the major development in these areas from the perspective of bioinorganic chemistry. Metallocofactors are essential for all forms of life and include a...
2nd Edition. - Wiley, 2007. - 539 p. - Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course, Second Edition provides the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry and biochemistry relevant to understanding bioinorganic topics. Rather than striving to provide a broad overview of the whole, rapidly expanding field, this resource provides essential background material, followed by detailed...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002. - 356 p. Bioinorganic chemical knowledge grows more interesting and more complex with each passing year. As more details about the usage and utility of metals in biological species and more mechanistic and structural information becomes available about bioinorganic molecules, more biologists, chemists, and physicists will become interested in the...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 99 p. — ISBN10: 3319536214. This book summarises the current knowledge on the role played by biologically relevant transition metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Ni, Co, Cu and Mg) in the basic biology and virulence of bacterial pathogens from the genus Brucella. The authors explore the biological functions of these metals, how these bacteria...
2nd Edition. — Berlin/Boston, Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. — 466 p. — ISBN: 3110478501. This volume on iron-sulfur proteins includes chapters that describe the initial discovery of iron-sulfur proteins in the 1960s to elucidation of the roles of iron sulfur clusters as prosthetic groups of enzymes, such as the citric acid cycle enzyme, aconitase, and numerous other...
2nd Edition. — Berlin/Boston, Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. — 493 p. — ISBN: 3110479397. This volume on iron-sulfur proteins includes chapters that discuss how microbes, plants, and animals synthesize these complex prosthetic groups, and why it is important to understand the chemistry and biogenesis of iron sulfur proteins. In addition to their vital importance in...
New York: Springer, 1985. — 697 p. This volume is based in part upon the proceedings of the Calcium Theme held during the 67th Annual Meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, which took place in Chicago, AprillO-lS, 1983. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics had the primary responsibility for organizing the...
Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2014. — 573 p. Porous silicon has a range of properties, making it ideal for drug delivery, cancer therapy, and tissue engineering. Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive review of this emerging nanostructured and biodegradable biomaterial. Chapters in part one focus on the fundamentals and properties of porous silicon...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. — xliv, 275 p. — (Metal ions in biological systems, V. 43). — ISBN: 0-8493-3807-7. Metal Ions in Biological Systems is devoted to increasing our understanding of the relationship between the chemistry of metals and life processes. The volumes reflect the interdisciplinary nature of bioinorganic chemistry and coordinate the efforts of researchers in...
Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media, 2013. — 589 p. — (Metal Ions in Life Sciences 11). Chapter 1, devoted to the bioinorganic chemistry of cadmium(II), sets the scene for Volume 11, which covers the whole range from toxicity to essentiality of this element. Of biological relevance is its high affinity for sulfur sites, which means, e.g., that in metallothionein with...
Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016. — 628 p. — (Metal Ions in Life Sciences 16) — ISBN10: 3319217550. Provides the most up-to-date review of the impact of alkali metal ions on life Brings together structural and microbial biology, inorganic biological chemistry and environmental biochemistry Focusses on the activation, transformation and syntheses of...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2009. — 620 p. — ISBN: 0470699973. Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our ability to computationally evaluate the electronic structure of inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This advancement is due to the Moore’s Law increase in computing power as well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT)...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. — 451 p. — (Wiley Series in Protein and Peptide Science). This book is an attempt to reveal the chemical concepts that rule the biological action of metalloproteins. The emphasis is on building up an understanding of basic ideas and familiarization with basic techniques. Enough background information is provided to introduce the field from both...
New York: Hodder Arnold H&S, 1981. - 203 p. Peter Stewart added controversy to an already troubled subject when he entered the clinical acid-base arena. His approach puts water dissociation at the centre of the acid-base status of body fluids. It is based on six simultaneous equations, incorporating the Laws of Mass Action, Mass Conservation, and Electrical Neutrality. Together...
Wiley. 2011. 401 p. Arsenic, antimony and bismuth, three related elements of group 15, are all found in trace quantities in nature and have interesting biological properties and uses. While arsenic is most well known as a poison, and indeed the contamination of groundwater by arsenic is becoming a major health problem in Asia, it also has uses for the treatment of blood cancer...
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016. — 472 p. — ISBN10: 1118898311. It has long been recognized that metal spin states play a central role in the reactivity of important biomolecules, in industrial catalysis and in spin crossover compounds. As the fields of inorganic chemistry and catalysis move towards the use of cheap, non-toxic first row transition metals, it is essential to...
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. — 250 p. — ISBN10: 1-4200-4613-6; ISBN13: 978-1-4200-4613-7. This book has evolved from over a quarter-century of research that concentrated on delineating the aqueous coordination reactions that characterize the vanadium(V) oxidation state. At the beginning of this time period, only a minor amount of research was being...
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, UK, 2013. – 231 p. – ISBN: 0470664827 Chromium exists in nature as complexes of two stable oxidation states – trivalent chromium(III) and hexavalent chromium(VI). Although trivalent chromium is required in trace amounts for sugar and lipid metabolism in humans and its deficiency may cause a disease called chromium deficiency; hexavalent...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017. — 396 p. Nickel is an essential element in many biochemical processes and there has been significant research into understanding in great depth the role that this transition element plays. This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest findings in nickel biology, covering the function, biochemistry, toxicology and medical...
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