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Article: New biological inorganic chemistry study findings reported from N. Veiga and co-authors.
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- Chemicals & Chemistry
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"The inositol phosphates are ubiquitous metabolites in eukaryotes, of which the most abundant are inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP (6)) and inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate [Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P (5))]. These two compounds, poorly understood functionally, have complicated complexation and solid formation behaviours with multivalent cations," scientists writing in the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry report.
"For InsP (6), we have previously described this chemistry and its biological implications (Veiga et al. in J Inorg Biochem 100:1800, 2006; Torres et al. in J Inorg Biochem 99:828, 2005). We now cover similar ground for Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P (5), describing ...