Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and text overview / Ivano Bertini [and others]
  • Part A. Overviews of biological inorganic chemistry
  • Bioinorganic chemistry and the biogeochemical cycles / Edward I. Stiefel
  • Metal ions and proteins: binding, stability, and folding / Ivano Bertini and Paola Turano
  • Special cofactors and metal clusters / Lucia Banci [and others]
  • Transport and storage of metal ions in biology / Thomas J. Lyons and David J. Eide
  • Biominerals and biomineralization / Stephen Mann
  • Metals in medicine / Peter J. Sadler, Christopher Muncie, and Michelle A. Shipman
  • Part B. Metal ion containing biological systems
  • Metal ion transport and storage / Philip Aisen [and others]
  • Hydrolytic chemistry / J.A. Cowan [and others]
  • Electron transfer, respiration, and photosynthesis / Lucia Banci [and others]
  • Oxygen metabolism / Joan Selverstone Valentine [and others]
  • Hydrogen, carbon, and sulfur metabolism / Michael J. Maroney [and others]
  • Metalloenzymes with radical intermediates / James W. Whittaker [and others]
  • Metal ion receptors and signaling / Dennis R. Winge [and others]
  • Cell biology, biochemistry, and evolution : Tutorial I / Edith B. Gralla and Aram Nersissian
  • Fundamentals of coordination chemistry : Tutorial II / James A. Roe, Bryan F. Shaw, and Joan Selverstone Valentine.