Description:
Frontmatter -- About the Editors -- Historical Development and Perspectives of the Series -- Preface to Volume 21 -- Contents -- Contributors to Volume 21 -- Titles of Volumes 1-44 in the Metal Ions in Biological Systems Series -- Contents of Volumes in the Metal Ions in Life Sciences Series -- 1 INTRODUCTION: FROM ROCKS TO LIVING CELLS -- 2 MICROBES: MASTERS OF THE GLOBAL ELEMENT CYCLES -- 3 BIOLOGICAL ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION AND EARTH HISTORY: FROM ENZYMES, TO CELLS, TO ECOSYSTEMS -- 4 IMAGING TRACE METALS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- 5 MINERALS AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE -- 6 THE FORMATION OF IRON BIOMINERALS IN MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA -- 7 LIVING ON IRON -- 8 EXTRACELLULAR REDOX CHEMISTRY -- 9 COPING WITH TOXIC METALS -- 10 THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS -- SUBJECT INDEX
One of the biggest questions in today's biochemistry is how biological molecules became essential for the processes that occur within living cells. This new book from outstanding Metal Ions in Life Science series gives an overview about biochemical evolution of organic molecules and metabolic pathways in living systems and outlines the vital biochemical processes in microbial cells in which metals are involved