The Biological Chemistry of the Elements: The organic Chemistry of life (Record no. 295866)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198508489
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 574.19214 SIL-B
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name J J R Frausto da Silva
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Biological Chemistry of the Elements: The organic Chemistry of life
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Edition statement 2nd ed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 575 p. : ill ; 25 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The chemical and physical factors controlling the elements of life -- The chemical elements in biology -- The element content of living systems -- An aside: some biological chemistry of hydrogen -- The economical use of resources: abundance and availability -- Biological environment and element availability -- Sulphide chemistry in water (anaerobes) -- A note on homeostasis -- Survival and evolution -- The principles of the uptake and chemical speciation of the elements in biology -- Introduction to chemical speciation -- The separations that biology can achieve -- The selective uptake of metal ions -- Effective stability constants -- Element uptake at equilibrium: the selectivity of the uptake -- Hydrolysis: hydroxides and oxenes -- Selective control of oxidation states of metals -- Selection by control of concentration of M and L -- Selection by transfer coefficients from water to proteins (or membranes) -- Selection at surfaces and in precipitates -- The selectivity of channels -- Kinetic effects and control -- Rejection of metal ions -- General aspects of the uptake of essential non-metals -- Mechanisms of selection of anions based on thermodynamic properties -- Redox incorporation of anions -- Coenzymes -- Precipitates in comparatments: cation and anion cooperativity -- The application of equilibria and equilibrium exchange to carriers, buffers, pumps, enzymes and gene regulation -- Genetic regulation-an introduction to control of ligand (protein) concentration -- Concluding remarks: element handling in biological systems.
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Summary, etc. "Twenty inorganic elements, mostly metal ions, are consistently found in living systems and are essential for living systems to function correctly. This text discusses, describes and explains the functional relevance of those elements: the reasons for their selection; the processes of their uptake; transport and final localization in cells; the regulation of these processes; and the interactive network of their reactions that connects the in vivo inorganic elements to the environment and to the genome. The volume has been thoroughly revised for this second edition and includes a discussion of the link to the genome of the uptake and transfer of inorganic elements and the regulation of homeostasis, the functional co-operative activities of the elements, the interaction with the environment, and the evolution of usage. Recent structural and mechanistic knowledge of many biomolecules and organelles is also included."--Jacket
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Bioinorganic chemistry. Bioanorganische Chemie Biochemie
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name R J P Williams
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