Abstract
Copper belongs to the biochemically active and essential transition metals. At present more than twenty different copper proteins are known. Their molecular properties and functional side is well characterized. In each of these proteins the copper is coordinated to the respective polypeptide side chains and is, in fact, the active centre. Copper exerts several distinct properties including the positive redox potential, the pronounced chelating activity and the extraordinary kinetic properties. Attributable to these properties this transition metal is preferentially active in electron transport reactions. Oxygen belongs to the preferred substrates. Very little is known on the biochemical reactivity of copper in inflammation. One of the major causes of inflammation is assigned to the action of excited oxygen species. Quite frequently, a rise of the copper concentration in serum up to a factor of four is observed in the course of inflammatory diseases. Extraneously administered copper has an antiinflammatory effect. We do not know whether or not the reactivity of copper must be exclusively seen in the biochemistry of oxygen. It is attempted to summarize the present thoughts and facts on the general biochemistry of both copper and inflammation. It will be attempted to correlate the biochemical properties of this most prominent transition metal with the biological aspects of inflammation.
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Deuschle, U., Weser, U. (1985). Copper and Inflammation. In: Oncogenes and Human Cancer Blood Groups in Cancer Copper and Inflammation Human Insulin. Progress in Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70570-0_3
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