Iron transport and storage in microorganisms, plants, and animals

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Iron transport and storage in microorganisms, plants, and animals

edited by Astrid Sigel and Helmut Sigel

(Metal ions in biological systems / edited by Helmut Sigel, v. 35)

Marcel Dekker, 1998

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"Volume 35 covers the biological cycling of iron in oceans; the transport of iron in microorganisms, fungi, and plants; the roles and properties of siderophores; the regulation of iron transport and uptake in animals, plants, and microorganisms, and more. "

Table of Contents

  • Biological cycling of iron in the sea
  • microbial iron transport - iron acquisition by pathogenic microorganisms
  • bacterial iron transport - mechanisms, genetics and regulation
  • molecular biology of iron transport in fungi
  • soil microorganisms and iron uptake by higher plants
  • iron transport in gaminaceous plants
  • the coordination chemistry of siderophores - thermodynamics and kinetics of iron chelation and release
  • biomimetic siderophores - from structural probes to diagnostic tools
  • the physical chemistry of bacterial outer-membrane siderophore receptor proteins
  • the iron responsive element (IRE) family of mRNA regulators
  • structure and structure-function relationships in the ferritins
  • ferritin - uptake, storage and release of iron
  • ferritin - its mineralization
  • iron storage and ferritin in plants
  • transferrin, the transferring receptor and the uptake of iron by cells
  • iron homeostasis
  • the role of other metals in iron transport
  • iron chelators for clinical use.

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