1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828616703321

Titolo

Iron-sulfur clusters in chemistry and biology / / edited by Tracey Rouault

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-047855-2

Edizione

[2. Aufl.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Chemistry and Biology ; ; Volume 1

Disciplina

612.3/924

Soggetti

Trace elements in nutrition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Tracey A. Rouault biography -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- 1. Iron-sulfur proteins: a historical perspective / Bonomi, Francesco / Rouault, Tracey A. -- 2. Chemistry of iron-sulfur clusters / Ichiye, Toshiko -- 3. From the quantum chemistry of iron-sulfur clusters to redox energetics and reaction pathways in metalloenzymes / Noodleman, Louis -- 4. Bioinorganic spectroscopy of iron sulfur proteins- an overview / Guo, Yisong / Li, Jikun -- 5. Quantitative interpretation of EPR spectroscopy with applications for iron-sulfur proteins / Petasis, Doros T. / Hendrich, Michael P. -- 6. The utility of Mössbauer spectroscopy in eukaryotic cell biology and animal physiology / Chakrabarti, Mrinmoy / Lindahl, Paul A. -- 7. The interstitial carbide of the nitrogenase M-cluster: insertion pathway and possible function / Sickerman, Nathaniel S. / Ribbe, Markus / Hu, Yilin -- 8. The iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase / Spatzal, Thomas / Andrade, Susana L. A. / Einsle, Oliver -- 9. Biotin synthase: a role for iron-sulfur clusters in the radical-mediated generation of carbon-sulfur bonds / Jarrett, Joseph T. -- 10. Molybdenum-containing iron-sulfur enzymes / Hille, Russ -- 11. The role of iron-sulfur clusters in the biosynthesis of the lipoyl cofactor / Lanz, Nicholas D. / Booker, Squire J. -- 12. Iron-sulfur clusters and molecular oxygen: function, adaptation, degradation, and repair / Nicolet, Yvain / Fontecilla-Camps, Juan C. -- 13. Reactivity of iron-sulfur clusters with nitric oxide / Dodd, Erin L. / Crack, Jason C. /



Thomson, Andrew J. / Le Brun, Nick E. -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume on iron-sulfur proteins includes chapters that describe the initial discovery of iron-sulfur proteins in the 1960s to elucidation of the roles of iron sulfur clusters as prosthetic groups of enzymes, such as the citric acid cycle enzyme, aconitase, and numerous other proteins, ranging from nitrogenase to DNA repair proteins. The capacity of iron sulfur clusters to accept and delocalize single electrons is explained by basic chemical principles, which illustrate why iron sulfur proteins are uniquely suitable for electron transport and other activities. Techniques used for detection and stabilization of iron-sulfur clusters, including EPR and Mossbauer spectroscopies, are discussed because they are important for characterizing unrecognized and elusive iron sulfur proteins. Recent insights into how nitrogenase works have arisen from multiple advances, described here, including studies of high-resolution crystal structures.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910345157703321

Titolo

Problems for democracy / / edited by John Kultgen and Mary Lenzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006

ISBN

94-012-0330-X

1-4294-5649-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of peace ; ; 181

Altri autori (Persone)

KultgenJohn H

LenziMary

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Peace-building

Democracy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the annual conference of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) on Problems for Democracy, held in Columbia, Mo.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments;



Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?; PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse; PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes; PART THREE: Democracy and Routes to Peace; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.