Inorganic salt of the inorganic salt function
Participate in and maintain the metabolic activity of the organism.
Although inorganic salts in the cell content is relatively small, but there are many important role. Ca2 + is the animal bone and teeth (containing CaCO3) composition, and blood coagulation and muscle contraction has a regulatory role, if the content is too low, the animal will appear muscle twitch. K + is a variety of enzyme activator, for the plant starch and protein synthesis and animal nerve impulse conduction and muscle contraction also plays an important role. Fe is a component of hemoglobin and cytochrome, and iron-containing enzymes are indispensable when chlorophyll is formed in plants. Another example is Na + for animal heart beat, nerve excitement is indispensable. The various inorganic salts dissolved in the cells have a certain total concentration, such as human body fluid concentration of 0.9%, frogs of 0.65%, which for maintaining cell osmotic pressure, so that cells maintain a certain shape has an important role, too high or Too low will lead to cell due to water or dehydration to change the cell morphology. There are also a number of buffering systems in the body, which are a group which has a neutralizing effect on the added acid or base so that the pH does not change significantly and therefore plays an important role in maintaining the acid-base balance of the cells.
Some inorganic salts are an important part of some of the complex compounds in the cell.