The chemical biology of sulfur /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Walsh, Christopher (Author)
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry,
Publisher Address: Cambridge :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Chemical biology, number 12
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xviii, 412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781839161445 (hardback) :
1839161442 (hardback)
9781839161841 (PDF ebook)
1839161841 (PDF ebook)
9781839161940 (ebook)
1839161949 (ebook)
Index Number: QD181
CLC: O613.51
Call Number: O613.51/W223
Contents: Part I: Inorganic sulfur chemical biology. Introduction to sulfur chemical biology -- Sulfate reducing bacteria -- Sulfide oxidizing bacteria -- Part II: Chemical biology of organosulfur metabolites. Organosulfur metabolites in biological systems -- The nucleophilic thiolate in cysteine and cysteamine scaffolds -- Protein cysteine persulfides and Fe-S clusters : intersection of organic and inorganic sulfur biochemistry -- Cysteine to taurine : thiol to sulfonic acid --Methionine : thioether biological chemistry -- One-electron vs. two-electron reaction manifolds in sulfur enzymology -- Sulfuryl transferases and sulfatases -- C-S bond formations in primary and secondary metabolism -- Part III: Sulfur side chains in proteomes. Cysteinyl proteomes I : metal coordination and catalytic Intermediates -- The posttranslational cysteinyl proteome -- Cysteinyl proteomes : exotic modifications -- Part IV: Overview and summary. A traverse through sulfur chemical biology.