Biological Inorganic Chemistry - 9781891389436

Designed for use in graduate or senior undergraduate courses in bioinorganic chemistry, this includes a tutorial in biochemistry and evolution and another in fundamentals of coordination chemistry to bring all students up to speed. Bertini (U. of Florence) and his editors, Harry B. Gray (Caltech), Edward I. Stiefel (Princeton U.), and Joan Selverstone Valentine (UCLA), call upon world leaders in the field to provide overviews of biological inorganic chemistry, covering bioinorganic chemistry and the biogeochemical cycles, the behavior of metal ions and proteins, special cofactors and metal clusters, transport and storage of metal ions in biology, biomineralization, and metals in medicine. Contributors then describe specific topics on metal ions in biological systems such as transport and storage, hydrolytic chemistry, electron transfer in respiration and photosynthesis, metalloenzymes with radical intermediates, Fe-S clusters in radical generation, metal ion receptors and signaling, and oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and sulfur metabolism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)