CONTENTS
I Introduction and Text Overview
PART A: OVERVIEWS OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
II Bioinorganic chemistry and the biogeochemical cycles
III Metal ions and proteins: Binding, stability and folding
IV Special cofactors and metal clusters
V Transport and storage of metal ions in biology
VI Biominerals and biomineralization
VII Metals in medicine
PART B: METAL-ION CONTAINING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
VIII Metal ion transport and storage
IX Hydrolytic chemistry
X Electron transfer, respiration and photosynthesis
XI Oxygen metabolism
XII Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur metabolism
XIII Metalloenzymes with radical intermediates
XIV Metal ion receptors and signaling
TUTORIALS
Tutorial I Cell biology, biochemistry and evolution
Tutorial II Fundamentals of coordination chemistry
Appendices
Index
Ivano Bertini - Professor of Chemistry and Director of the
Magnetic Resonance Center of the University of Florence. His main
research interests are the advancements in nuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy, the expression and preparation of
metalloproteins, their structural characterization and the
investigation of their interactions with emphasis on understanding
cellular processes at the molecular level.
Harry B. Gray - the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry
and the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the
California Institute of Technology. His main research interests
center on inorganic spectroscopy, photochemistry, and bioinorganic
chemistry, with emphasis on understanding electron transfer in
proteins. For his contributions to chemistry, which include over
700 papers and 17 books, he has received the National Medal of
Science from President Ronald Reagan (1986); the Linderstrøm-Lang
Prize (1991); the Basolo Medal (1994); the Gibbs Medal (1994); the
Chandler Medal (1999) and the Harvey Prize (2000).
Edward I. Stiefel - Professor of Chemistry at Princeton
University and associated faculty member of the Princeton
Environmental Institute until his untimely death in summer of 2006.
His research involved the role of metal ions in biological systems
including: iron in marine environments, especially the iron storage
and DNA protective proteins ferritin and Dps; the biological
production of hydrogen by phototropic hydrogenases and theoretical
studies of hydrogenase action; the role of molybdenum in biology;
and aspects of metals in medicine.
Joan S. Valentine -
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