Porous materials built up from metal-nucleobase materials / Garikoitz Beobide, Oscar Castillo, Antonio Luque, and Sonia Pérez-Yáñez -- Cytosine and its derivatives as useful tools to build unusual and fascinating architectures / Teresa F. Mastropietro and Giovanni De Munno -- Coordination polymers with nucleobase derivatives : from electronic nanodevices to sensors / Noelia Maldonado and Pilar Amo-Ochoa -- Heavy coinage metal nucleobase, nucleoside and (oligo)nucleotide systems : recent developments in self-assembly, opto-electronics and DNA integration / Andrew Houlton -- Interplay between non-covalent interactions and metal ions in nucleic acids and their constituents / Miquel Barceló-Oliver, Antonio Frontera, Juan Jesús Fiol, Ángel García-Raso, and Ángel Terrón -- Biological implications of metal-nucleobase complexes / Saurabh Joshi, Ankita Jaiswal, Rajneesh Kumar Prajapati, and Sandeep Verma -- Stimuli-responsive DNA-binding metal complexes / Tim Kench and Ramon Vilar -- How do cationic Pt(II) complexes modify the higher-order structure of DNA? / Seiji Komeda, Masako Uemura, Yuko Yoshikawa, and Kenichi Yoshikawa -- Metals in genotyping - from SNPs to sequencing / Tuomas Lönnberg -- Nucleic acids for the preparation and control of continuous hybrid metallic assemblies / Miguel A. Galindo, Fátima Linares, Alicia Domínguez-Martín, and Antonio Pérez-Romero -- Recent advances in the development of metal-responsive functional DNAs based on metal-mediated artificial base pairing / Yusuke Takezawa and Mitsuhiko Shionoya -- Nucleic acid-templated metal nanoclusters / Rweetuparna Guha and Stacy M. Copp -- G-Quadruplex nucleic acids and the role of metal ions : insights from quantum chemical bonding analyses / Celine Nieuwland and Célia Fonseca Guerra -- Transition metal-binding G-Quadruplex DNA / Lukas M. Stratmann and Guido H. Clever -- Metabolite regulation by riboswitches : the role of metal ions in folding, ligand binding, and functionality / Maria Reichenbach, Sofia Gallo, and Roland K.O. Sigel.

"Volume 25, entitled Modern Avenues in Metal-Nucleic Acid Chemistry, of the series Metal Ions in Life Sciences (MILS), provides a timely overview of selected relevant developments in a field which previously had a pronounced focus on fundamental chemistry aspects such as coordination principles, structural chemistry, and consequences for biological processes and disease-related medicinal issues. More recently, also as a consequence of the advent of supramolecular chemistry, advancements in nanochemistry, and new bio-analytical methods, novel aspects of this field have emerged. MILS-25 gives a state-of-the-art account on the present state of research in this field, addressing, among others, porous materials, non-covalent interactions, stimuli-responsive bioconjugates, DNA-templated metal arrays and nanoclusters, genotyping, guanine quadruplexes, and riboswitches. It consists of 15 comprehensive chapters with over 1600 citations, 160 figures (90 of them in color), with key contributions from 40 international experts from Europe, Asia, and America. It is an essential resource for scientists from numerous disciplines, ranging from materials science to biochemistry, by way of classical chemistry and physics"--