The Metal-Driven Biogeochemistry of Gaseous Compounds in the Environment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kroneck, Peter M.H (Editor), Torres, Martha E. Sosa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Metal Ions in Life Sciences, 14
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Chemistry.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Biomedicine general.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.

MILS-14 provides a most up-to-date view of the exciting biogeochemistry of gases in our environment as driven mostly by microorganisms. These employ a machinery of sophisticated metalloenzymes, where especially transition metals (such as Fe, Ni, Cu, Mo, W) play a fundamental role, that is, in the ac...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Early Earth Atmosphere and Early Life Catalysts
• Living on Acetylene. A Primordial Energy Source
• Carbon Monoxide. Toxic Gas and Fuel for Anaerobes and Aerobes: Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases
• Investigations of the Efficient Electrocatalytic Interconversions of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide by Nickel-Containing Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenases
• Understanding and Harnessing Hydrogenases. Biological Dihydrogen Catalysts
• Biochemistry of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: The Nickel Metalloenzyme that Catalyzes the Final Step in Synthesis and the First Step in Anaerobic Oxidation of the Greenhouse Gas Methane
• Cleaving the N,N Triple Bond: The Transformation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by Nitrogenases
• No Laughing Matter: The Unmaking of the Greenhouse Gas Dinitrogen Monoxide by Nitrous Oxide Reductase
• The Production of Ammonia by Multiheme Cytochromes c
• Hydrogen Sulfide: A Toxic Gas Produced by Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction and Consumed by Microbial Oxidation
• Transformations of Dimethylsulfide
• Index.