Table of Contents

PREFACE
Gerald Litwack
1. INSERTION OF COBALT INTO TETRAPYRROLES
J.A. Morris, S. Lickey and M.D. Liptak
2. APPLICATION OF BIOORGANOMETALLIC B12 IN GREEN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
Hisashi Shimakoshi
3. COBAMIDE REMODELING,
Amy T. Ma, Daniel S. Kantner and Joris Beld
4. CUBILIN, THE INTRINSIC FACTOR-VITAMIN B12 RECEPTOR
Renata Kozyraki, Pierre Verroust and Olivier Cases
5. MEMBRANE TRANSPORT OF COBALAMIN
Mark Nijland, Jose Miguel Martinez Felices, Dirk J. Slotboom and Chancievan Thangaratnarajah
6. VITAMIN B12 PHOTORECEPTORS
S. Padmanabhan, Ricardo Perez-Castano, Lucia Osete-Alcaraz, Maria Carmen Polanco and Montserrat Elias-Arnanz
7. PHOTOLYTIC PROPERTIES OF B12-DEPENDENT ENZYMES: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
Arghya Pratim Ghosh, Megan J. Toda and Pawel M. Kozlowski
8. ANTIVITAMINS B12
Berhard Krautler
9. VITAMIN B12 ABSORPTION AND MALABSORPTION
Jean-Louis Gueant, Rosa-Maria Gueant-Rodriguez and David H. Alpers
10. INTRACELLULAR PROCESSING OF VITAMIN B12 BY MMACHC (CblC)
Luciana Hannibal and Donald W. Jacobsen
11. TELOMERE LENGTH AND VITAMIN B12
Guruvaiah Praveen, Mudili Sivaprasad and G. Bhanuprakash Reddy
12. VITAMIN B12 AND CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
Henry H.L. Wu and Angela Y.M. Wang
13. INHERITED DEFECTS OF COBALAMIN METABOLISM
David Watkins and David S. Rosenblatt
14. BEHAVIORAL PROFILE OF VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY: A REFLECTION OF IMPAIRED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, NEURONAL STRESS AND ALTERED NEOPLASTICITY
Gregory Pourie, Jean-Louis Gueant and Edward Quadros
15. VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY – CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Ralph Green and Joshua Miller
16. METABOLISM-MEDIATED THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY AND B12
Hadi Goubran, Gaafer Ragab and Waleed Sabry
17. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS IN VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY
Prashant Sabu, Harish Thippeswamy and Santosh K. Chaturvadi
18. VITAMIN B12 AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN NEMATODES
Wen-Sui Lo and Ralf J. Sommer
19. DETERMINATION OF COBALAMIN AND RELATED COMPONDS IN FOODS
F. Watanabe, T. Bito and K.

About the Author

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)