The Alkali Metal Ions: Their Role for Life

1. Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Alkali Metal Ions, Youngsam Kim, Thuy Tien Nguyen, and David G. Churchill2. Determination of Alkali Ions in Biological and Environmental Samples, Peter C. Hauser3. Solid State Structures of Alkali Metal Ion Complexes Formed by Low-Molecular-Weight Ligands of Biological Relevance, Katsuyuki Aoki,Kazutaka Murayama,and Ning-Hai Hu4. Discriminating Properties of Alkali Metal Ions towards the Constituents of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Conclusions from Gas-Phase and Theoretical Studies, Mary T. Rodgers and Peter B. Armentrout 5. Alkali Metal Ion Complexes with Phosphates, Nucleotides, Amino Acids, and Related Ligands of Biological Relevance. Their Properties in Solution, Francesco Crea, Concetta De Stefano, Claudia Foti, Gabriele Lando, Demetrio Milea, and Silvio Sammartano6. Sodium and Potassium Interactions with Nucleic Acids, Pascal Auffinger, Luigi D'Ascenzo, and Eric Ennifar7. Role of Alkali Metal Ions in G-Quadruplex Nucleic Acid Structure and Stability, Eric Largy,Jean-Louis Mergny and Valérie Gabelica8. Sodium and Potassium Ions in Proteins and Enzyme Catalysis, Milan Vasák and Joachim Schnabl9. Roles and Transport of Sodium and Potassium in Plants, Manuel Nieves-Cordones, Fouad Razzaq Al Shiblawi, and Hervé Sentenac10. Potassium versus Sodium Selectivity in Monovalent Ion Channel Selectivity Filters, Carmay Limand Todor Dudev 11. Sodium as Coupling Cation in Respiratory Energy Conversion, Günter Fritz and Julia Steuber 12. Sodium-Proton (Na+/H+) Antiporters: Properties and Roles in Health and Disease, Etana Padan and Meytal Landau13. Proton-Potassium (H+/K+) ATPases: Properties and Roles in Health and Diseases, Hideki Sakai,Takuto Fujii,and Noriaki Takeguchi 14. Bioinspired Artificial Sodium and Potassium Ion Channels, Nuria Rodríguez-Vázquez, Alberto Fuertes, Manuel Amorín, and Juan R. Granja15. Lithium in Medicine: Mechanisms of Action, Duarte Mota de Freitas, Brian D. Leverson, and Jesse L. Goossens16. Sodium and Potassium Relating to Parkinson's Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury, Yonghwang Ha, Jeong A. Jeong, Youngsam Kim, and David G. Churchill... Mehr