Biochalcogen chemistry : the biological chemistry of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium
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Biochalcogen chemistry : the biological chemistry of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium
（ACS symposium series, 1152）
American Chemical Society , Distributed in print by Oxford University Press, c2013
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"the 'Biochalcogen Chemistry' symposium at the 2012 National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Biochalcogen Chemistry: The Biological Chemistry of Sulfur, Selenium, and Tellurium highlights the biological uses of heavy chalcogens as a key area of focus in bioinorganic chemistry and a unifying theme for research in a wide variety of disciplines. Recent achievements in these multidisciplinary efforts are presented that discuss the subtle, yet important roles of biochalcogens in living systems as sulfur- and selenium-containing metabolic intermediates
and products (Chapters 1 and 10) and in their oxidation when coordinated to metals (Chapters 3 and 4). Chemical and instrumental tools for detecting sulfur and selenium species and their functionalities are also discussed (Chapters 2 and 6), as are new directions in biochalcogen applications to redox
scavenging, both in terms of synthesis (Chapters 7 and 8) and mechanistic modeling (Chapter 9). Tellurium, with no natural biological function, is represented together with sulfur and selenium as a phasing agent in nucleic acid crystallography and for other biological studies (Chapter 5).
This book will serve as a useful collection of reviews and research results in this diverse field, encompassing research in bioinorganic chemistry, organic synthesis, computational approaches, and biochemistry, as an inspiration for researchers wishing to enter the variety of fields that encompass these multidisciplinary research efforts, and as a useful resource for undergraduate or graduate courses focusing on main group and transition element biochemistry. A wide audience will find this book
a helpful resource for this rapidly expanding field.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Smelling Sulfur: Discovery of a Sulfur-Sensing Olfactory Receptor that
- Requires Copper
- 2. Chemical Tools for Studying Biological Hydrogen Sulfide
- 3. Thione- and Selone-Containing Compounds, Their Late First Row
- Transition Metal Coordination Chemistry, and Their Biological Potential
- 4. Sulfur Oxygenation Enhances Ligand Exchange in Nitrile-Hydratase-
- Inspired Ruthenium(II) Complexes
- 5. Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids Functionalized with Sulfur, Selenium, and
- Tellurium: Roles of the Single-Atom Substitution
- 6. 77Se NMR Spectroscopy of Selenoproteins
- 7. Investigations of New Types of Glutathione Peroxidase Mimetics
- 8. Emulating Antioxidative Functions of Glutathione Peroxidase Using
- Selenopeptides
- 9. Modeling of Mechanisms of Selenium Bioactivity Using Density Functional
- Theory
- 10. Selenotrisulfide as a Metabolic Intermediate in Biological Systems
- Editors' Biographies
- Indexes
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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