A Coordination-Chemical Basis for the Bi
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Jens Johanning; Henry Strasdeit
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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To fix toxic heavy-metal ions, plants synthesize the ligands (ฮณ-Glu-Cys) -Gly (PC ), whose simplest representative is the pentapeptide PC . The knowledge of the composition and stabilities of the cadmium complexes of PC allow a better understanding of biological processes like the one outlined.