Transition metals and sulfur : a strong relationship for life / guest editors, Martha E. Sosa Torres and Peter M. H. Kroneck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sosa Torres, Martha E., editor.

Kroneck, Peter M. H., editor.

Series:

Metal ions in life sciences ; Volume 20.

Metal ions in life sciences ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transition metals--Physiological effect.

Transition metals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XLV, 455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Metal-Sulfur clusters play an essential role in living organisms through the unique character of sulfur-metal bonding. The new volume in prestigious Metal Ions in Life Sciences explores different transition metal complexes with sulfur, their biosynthesis and biological functions in regulation of gene expression, catalysis of important metabolic reactions and protein structure arrangement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

About the Editors

Historical Development and Perspectives of the Series. Metal Ions in Life Sciences*

Preface to Volume 20. Transition Metals and Sulfur: A Strong Relationship for Life

Contents

Contributors to Volume 20

Titles of Volumes 1–44 in the Metal Ions in Biological Systems Series

Contents of Volumes in the Metal Ions in Life Sciences Series

1. Introduction: Transition Metals and Sulfur

2. Sulfur, the Versatile Non-metal

3. The Type 1 Blue Copper Site: From Electron Transfer to Biological Function

4. Purple Mixed-Valent Copper A

5. The Tetranuclear Copper-Sulfide Center of Nitrous Oxide Reductase

6. Cytochrome P450. The Dioxygen-Activating Heme Thiolate

7. Basic Iron-Sulfur Centers

8. The Cofactors of Nitrogenases

9. Molybdenum and Tungsten Cofactors and the Reactions They Catalyze

10. The Siroheme-[4Fe-4S] Coupled Center

11. Nickel, Iron, Sulfur Sites

12. Zinc Fingers

SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110588941

3110588943

9783110589757

3110589753

OCLC:

1153505734