"...thoroughly documented critical reviews with large lists of references... ...[This book is a valuable source of information for advance students and researchers in bioinorganic chemistry, biochemistry, coordination chemistry, and clinical chemistry, as well as other specialists interested in the structure-function relationship in metalloproteins. ..."- Journal of Food Biochemistry, Vol. 27, no. 3, 2003

• Interaction of sodium and potassium with proteins; structure and function of sodium and potassium channel proteins in membranes; magnesium-activated enzyme systems; calcium and its enzymes; vanadium in proteins and enzymes; are there proteins containing chromium?; manganese-containing enzymes and proteins; iron in heme and related proteins; iron-sulfur proteins; structure-function of non-heme iron proteins with oxygen and nitrogen dominated coordination; iron storage and transport; cobalt in vitamin B12 and its enzymes; nickel-containing enzymes; copper proteins in the transport and activation of dioxygen, and the reduction of inorganic molecules; multi-copper oxidases; copper in electron transfer proteins; proteins of various functions containing copper; zinc sites in metalloenzymes and related proteins; zinc finger proteins; other zinc proteins -metallthioneins and insulin; enzymes and proteins containing molybdenum or tungsten; emerging themes and patterns among metalloproteins; one and three letter symbols for the amino acids; the standard genetic code.