The final inorganic blog consisted of describing the three most valuable things taken from this course. I feel the three most valuable things for me would be: transport and storage of metal ions in biology, metals in medicine, and hydrolytic chemistry.
1. Transport and storage of metal ions in biology: due to the fact that all metal ions contain chemical properties which allow them to play distinct roles in cellular biochemistry. In addition to this, metal ions are important for humans as well. A lot of genetic diseases in humans are caused by mutations that can alter there metal ion metabolism. So understanding metal ion transport is crucial to improve human health.
2. Metals in medicine: This was a key interest for me as well as my classmate who plan to go into the medical field. Be able to understand what roles that metals play in medicine was very interesting and something new to learn. Being able to learn how cisplatin is used widely in anticancer drugs as well as learning the appropriate mechanism that this metal undergoes to be used for anticancer drugs.
3. Hydrolytic Chemsitry: Learning how certain metalloenzymes funcction in general metabolic pathways and seeing how these enzymes function in nucleic acid biochemistry. Within this chapter, zinc was discussed so I found this section to be very interesting and useful since I concluded more research on zinc finger proteins and why we care about them.
