Essential and Ubiquitous: The Emergence of Lanthanide Metallobiochemistry

Daumann, Lena J. (2019): Essential and Ubiquitous: The Emergence of Lanthanide Metallobiochemistry. In: Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, Vol. 58, No. 37: pp. 12795-12802

Abstract

Lanthanide biochemistry-A surprise around every corner: lanthanides as biologically essential metals. This statement was until recently, unthinkable. This minireview presents the recent developments in the emerging field of rare-earth element biochemistry from a coordination chemist's point of view and discusses why nature might have chosen these elements to have a catalytic role in alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes as they are found in methanotrophic and methylotrophic bacteria.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 1433-7851
• Language: English