Abstract
Water and buffer ions are always available and frequently involved as ligands. In particular, the oxygen atom of the water molecule forms a stable coordinate link with iron group ions. Putting aside these very small and unconstrained ligands, we turn to the metal-binding groups on proteins and associated with proteins.
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Brill, A.S. (1977). Metal Coordination in Proteins. In: Transition Metals in Biochemistry. Molecular Biology Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81148-7_2
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