Metal Ions in Biological Systems: Volume 19: Antibiotics and Their Complexes / Edition 1

by Helmut Sigel

Overview

This volume is an attempt to improve the understanding of the coordination chemistry and action of the biologically important compounds, also termed antibiotics, and to stimulate further research in this area, describing the properties of the biologically important compounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824774257
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/1985
Series:	Metal Ions in Biological Systems , #19
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The Discovery of Ionophores: An Historical Account 2. Tetracyclines and Daunorubicin 3. Interaction of Metal Ions with Streptonigrin and Biological Properties of the Complexes 4. Bleomycin Antibiotics: Metal Complexes and Their Biological Action 5. Interaction between Valinomycin and Metal Ions 6. Beauvericin and the Other Enniatins 7. Complexing Properties of Gramicidins 8. Nactins: Their Complexes and Biological Properties 9. Cation Complexes of the Monovalent and Polyvalent Carboxylic Ionophores: Lasalocid (X-537A), Monensin, A23187 (Calcimycin), and Related Antibiotics 10. Complexes of D-Cycloserine and Related Amino Acids 11. Iron-Containing Antibiotics 12. Cation-Ionophore Interactions: Quantification of the Factors Underlying Selective Complexation by Means of Theoretical Computations

Editorial Reviews

Thirty chapters provide a handbook-like treatment of magnesium and its function in the environment, its bioinorganic chemistry, its role for plants and in animal and human nutrition, its biochemistry and physiology, and its relation to human health and disease. The last 20 years have seen a proliferation of knowledge about this ubiquitous element, and the interdisciplinary presentation made here should promote more progress as the field of "bioinorganic chemistry" gains momentum. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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