Inorganic Biochemistry of Iron Metabolism

Inorganic Biochemistry

Inorganic Biochemistry of Medicinal Plants

Most medicinal plants are flowering plants and they also serve as ornamental plants. Measurement of trace element content in medicinal plants, drugs and extracts may be relevant in view of e.g. human health, animal health and environmental relations. This fact has a great significance since about half of the plant drugs available in the trade originate from natural habitats and the element cont...

Biochemistry & metabolism

This book is one of a series developed for undergraduate medical students that fully integrates basic science, clinical medicine, and surgery featuring clinical cases, graphic narratives, and a selection of learning tools. The book comprises 260 pages, divided into 9 chapters. Each chapter starts with pre-assessment questions or a clinical case that helps to engage the reader and focus on the i...

The inorganic biochemistry of photosynthetic water oxidation.

This enzyme, called the photosynthetic water oxidation complex (WOC), liberates protons and electrons needed for energy production and reduction of NADP’ and quinones that are essential for plant growth. The 0, formed in Equation 1 is not essential for plant survival, but is essential for other organisms on Earth, since it is by far the major source of global OL production for the atmosphere. T...

Transferrin: From Inorganic Biochemistry to Medicine

Transferrin is one of the key proteins of iron metabolism in mammalians. It is responsible for the transfer of the essential iron(III) ions through the biological fluids from absorption to storage and utilization sites. Moreover, transferrin is involved in the metabolism of other metal ions that are either trace or toxic elements. In recent years the crystal structure of transferrin has been so...