Metallomics

A new avenue for research is opened up by the field of metallomics, which unites the disciplines that study biometals and biometalloids. It emphasises the significance of various chemical components in biochemistry as a component of a systems biology approach. A new avenue for research is opened up by the field of metallomics, which unites the disciplines that study biometals and biometalloids. It emphasises the significance of various chemical components in biochemistry as a component of a systems biology approach. Since inorganic chemistry is thought to be the domain allocated for studying the inanimate world, biochemistry has traditionally studied life as organic chemistry. On the other hand, inorganic chemistry is a component of the chemistry of life, and metallomics adds by highlighting the significance of a fifth branch of biochemical building blocks that has been underappreciated. The four components that make up biomolecules—carbohydrates (glycome), lipids (lipidome), proteins (proteome), and nucleotides—as well as the disciplines in which they are studied—are combined with chemical elements or metals in metallomics (genome). As it necessitates investigations into the functional implications of almost all the natural elements, the understanding that non-essential elements are present in organisms in addition to essential ones constitutes a certain paradigm shift in our thinking. It emphasises the primary functions of metals, or the metalloproteomes, in between 30 and 40 percent of all proteins and views the biological periodic system of the elements as a collection of metallomes.