Non-essential metals in chemical biology.
- Dyson PJ Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. paul.dyson@epfl.ch
- 2012-02-01
Published in:
- Chimia. - 2011
Biology
Metals
Microscopy, Confocal
Microscopy, Fluorescence
Models, Molecular
Protein Conformation
Proteins
English
Metal ions and compounds are essential to life and many people routinely take them as food supplements in the form of vitamin and mineral pills. Most non-essential metals are considered to be toxic, nevertheless, many are widely used in imaging, diagnostics and medicine. This short review provides an overview from selected examples of the on-going research within my laboratory that uses metal compounds to either understand biological processes or that exhibit therapeutic properties overcoming the limitations of existing chemotherapies.
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- English
- Open access status
- green
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- DOI 10.2533/chimia.2011.839
- PMID 22289367
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/159214
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