The Alkali Metal Ions: Their Role for Life

1. Bioinorganic Chemistry of the Alkali Metal Ions
Youngsam Kim, Thuy-Tien T. Nguyen, David G. Churchill

2. Determination of Alkali Ions in Biological and Environmental Samples
Peter C. Hauser

3. Solid State Structures of Alkali Metal Ion Complexes Formed by Low-Molecular-Weight Ligands of Biological Relevance
Katsuyuki Aoki, Kazutaka Murayama, Ning-Hai Hu

4. Discriminating Properties of Alkali Metal Ions Towards the Constituents of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Conclusions from Gas-Phase and Theoretical Studies
Mary T. Rodgers, 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 Stefano, Claudia Foti, Gabriele Lando, Demetrio Milea, Silvio Sammartano

6. Sodium and Potassium Interactions with Nucleic Acids
Pascal Auffinger, Luigi D’Ascenzo, Eric Ennifar

7. Role of Alkali Metal Ions in G-Quadruplex Nucleic Acid Structure and Stability
Eric Largy, Jean-Louis Mergny, Valérie Gabelica

8. Sodium and Potassium Ions in Proteins and Enzyme Catalysis
Milan Vašák, Joachim Schnabl

9. Roles and Transport of Sodium and Potassium in Plants
Manuel Nieves-Cordones, Fouad Razzaq Al Shiblawi, Hervé Sentenac

10. Potassium Versus Sodium Selectivity in Monovalent Ion Channel Selectivity Filters
Carmay Lim, Todor Dudev

11. Sodium as Coupling Cation in Respiratory Energy Conversion
Günter Fritz, Julia Steuber

12. Sodium-Proton (Na+/H+) Antiporters: Properties and Roles in Health and Disease
Etana Padan, Meytal Landau

13. Proton-Potassium (H+/K+) ATPases: Properties and Roles in Health and Diseases
Hideki Sakai, Takuto Fujii, Noriaki Takeguchi

14. Bioinspired Artificial Sodium and Potassium Ion Channels
Nuria Rodríguez-Vázquez, Alberto Fuertes, Manuel Amorín, Juan R. Granja

15. Lithium in Medicine: Mechanisms of Action
Duarte Mota de Freitas, Brian D. Leverson, Jesse L. Goossens

16. Sodium and Potassium Relating to Parkinson’s Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury
Yonghwang Ha, Jeong A Jeong, Youngsam Kim, David G. Churchill

Keywords: Life Sciences, Biochemistry, general