Iron Biominerals
Published on 17. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 435 pages
978-1-4613-6699-7 (ISBN)
Description
Iron Biominerals: An Overview.- Biominerals and Homeostasis.- Crystallochemical Control of Iron Oxide Biomineralization.- Magnetotactic Magnetogens.- Anaerobic Production of Single-Domain Magnetite by the Marine, Magnetotactic Bacterium, Strain MV-1.- Application of Bacterial Magnetite.- Observations of Magnetosome Organization, Surface Structure, and Iron Biomineralization of Undescribed Magnetic Bacteria: Evolutionary Speculations.- Diversity of Magnetic Crystals Found in Magnetotactic Bacteria.- Phylogenetic analysis of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum Using PCR-Amplified 16s Ribosomal RNA-specific DNA.- Iron Mineralization By Bacteria: Metabolic Coupling of Iron Reduction to Cell Metabolism in Alteromonas Putrefaciens Strain MR-1.- Magnetite Formation During Microbial Dissimilatory Iron Reduction.- Structural and Morphological Characterization of Biogenic Magnetite Crystals.- Inorganic Formation of Ultrafine-Grained Magnetite.- Iron Biomineralization in Invertebrates.- Structure and Formation of the Magnetite-Bearing Cap of Polyplacophoran Tricuspid Radular Teeth.- Intercellular Junctions, Motility and Magnetosome Structure in a Multicellular Magnetotoactic Prokaryote.- Biomineralization of Iron Sulfides in Magnetotactic Bacteria from Sulfidic Environments.- Biomineralization of a New Material by a Magnetotactic Microorganism.- Ferritin: A Model System for Iron Biomineralization.- Ferritin Iron Cores: Variable Iron Biominerals.- Redox Capacity of Mammalian Ferritin.- Some Speculations on the Role of Oxyradicals in the Conversion of Ferritin to Hemosiderin.- Bacterioferritin: A Microbial Iron-Storage Protein?.- Mechanisms of Ferritin Iron Incorporation: A Study with Recombinant and Mutant Human Ferritins.- Dynamic Stability of Apoferritin: A New Model to Explain How Impermeable Reagents Can Reduce/Capture Iron Within Ferritin.- Ferritin, Biomineralization and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Magnetic Reonance Imaging of Brain Iron Using a 4 Tesla Whole-Body Scanner.- Structure-Activity Correlations for the Ferric Uptake Regulation (FUR) Repressor Protein for Escherichia Coli K12.- A Genetic Approach to the Study of Iron Metabolism in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.- Iron Acquisition and Microbial Virulence: Potential Uptake Systems in the Aeromonas Species.- Importance of Uptake and Cellular Distribution of Iron in the Regulation of Intestinal Iron Absorption.- Contributors.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
IX, 435 p.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
837 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-6699-7 (9781461366997)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-3810-3
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Book
03/1991
1st Edition
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
Iron Biominerals: An Overview.- Biominerals and Homeostasis.- Crystallochemical Control of Iron Oxide Biomineralization.- Magnetotactic Magnetogens.- Anaerobic Production of Single-Domain Magnetite by the Marine, Magnetotactic Bacterium, Strain MV-1.- Application of Bacterial Magnetite.- Observations of Magnetosome Organization, Surface Structure, and Iron Biomineralization of Undescribed Magnetic Bacteria: Evolutionary Speculations.- Diversity of Magnetic Crystals Found in Magnetotactic Bacteria.- Phylogenetic analysis of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum Using PCR-Amplified 16s Ribosomal RNA-specific DNA.- Iron Mineralization By Bacteria: Metabolic Coupling of Iron Reduction to Cell Metabolism in Alteromonas Putrefaciens Strain MR-1.- Magnetite Formation During Microbial Dissimilatory Iron Reduction.- Structural and Morphological Characterization of Biogenic Magnetite Crystals.- Inorganic Formation of Ultrafine-Grained Magnetite.- Iron Biomineralization in Invertebrates.- Structure and Formation of the Magnetite-Bearing Cap of Polyplacophoran Tricuspid Radular Teeth.- Intercellular Junctions, Motility and Magnetosome Structure in a Multicellular Magnetotoactic Prokaryote.- Biomineralization of Iron Sulfides in Magnetotactic Bacteria from Sulfidic Environments.- Biomineralization of a New Material by a Magnetotactic Microorganism.- Ferritin: A Model System for Iron Biomineralization.- Ferritin Iron Cores: Variable Iron Biominerals.- Redox Capacity of Mammalian Ferritin.- Some Speculations on the Role of Oxyradicals in the Conversion of Ferritin to Hemosiderin.- Bacterioferritin: A Microbial Iron-Storage Protein?.- Mechanisms of Ferritin Iron Incorporation: A Study with Recombinant and Mutant Human Ferritins.- Dynamic Stability of Apoferritin: A New Model to Explain How Impermeable Reagents Can Reduce/Capture Iron Within Ferritin.- Ferritin, Biomineralization and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Magnetic Reonance Imaging of Brain Iron Using a 4 Tesla Whole-Body Scanner.- Structure-Activity Correlations for the Ferric Uptake Regulation (FUR) Repressor Protein for Escherichia Coli K12.- A Genetic Approach to the Study of Iron Metabolism in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.- Iron Acquisition and Microbial Virulence: Potential Uptake Systems in the Aeromonas Species.- Importance of Uptake and Cellular Distribution of Iron in the Regulation of Intestinal Iron Absorption.- Contributors.