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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Emergence of Lanthanide Metallobiochemistry
Author(s) -
Daumann Lena J.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201904090
Subject(s) - lanthanide , surprise , chemistry , biochemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , psychology , organic chemistry , ion , social psychology
Lanthanide biochemistry—A surprise around every corner: lanthanides as biologically essential metals. This statement was until recently, unthinkable. This minireview presents the recent developments in the emerging field of rare‐earth element biochemistry from a coordination chemist's point of view and discusses why nature might have chosen these elements to have a catalytic role in alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes as they are found in methanotrophic and methylotrophic bacteria.