New revised edition of this bestseller, which teaches the importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the 2nd Edition
• An Overview of Metals and Selected Nonmetals in Biology
• Basic Coordination Chemistry for Biologists
• Structural and Molecular Biology for Chemists
• Biological Ligands for Metal Ions
• An Overview of Intermediary Metabolism and Bioenergetics
• Methods to Study Metals in Biological Systems
• Metal Assimilation Pathways
• Transport, Storage, and Homeostasis of Metal Ions
• Sodium and Potassium – Channels and Pumps
• Magnesium–Phosphate Metabolism and Photoreceptors
• Calcium – Cellular Signalling
• Zinc – Lewis Acid and Gene Regulator
• Iron: Essential for Almost All Life
• Copper – Coping with Dioxygen
• Nickel and Cobalt: Evolutionary Relics
• Manganese – Oxygen Generation and Detoxification
• Molybdenum, Tungsten, Vanadium, and Chromium
• Non-metals in Biology
• Biomineralisation
• Metals in Brain
• Metals and Neurodegeneration
• Metals in Medicine and Metals as Drugs
• Metals in the Environment