Нафига козе... биологическим системам вольфрам?

Вольфрам тугоплавкий металл и в метаболизме человека никак не используются. Однако на Земле есть биологические системы, которые используют его. Но не смог найти конкретики на группу вопросов связанную с итоговыми преимуществами: Лучше сопротивление окружающей среде? Продлевает жизнь? Или что?

Не биолог, поэтому обращаюсь за помощью залу. Вдруг кто-то рубит тему как капусту и может прямо и просто рассказать нафига в итоге вольфрам нужен?

Зачем эта информация? Можно использовать в НФ.

Цитаты из ВИКИ.

На русском

Вольфрам не играет значительной биологической роли. У некоторых архебактерий и бактерий имеются ферменты, включающие вольфрам в своём активном центре. Существуют облигатно-зависимые от вольфрама формы архебактерий-гипертермофилов, обитающие вокруг глубоководных гидротермальных источников. Присутствие вольфрама в составе ферментов может рассматриваться как физиологический реликт раннего архея — существуют предположения, что вольфрам играл роль в ранних этапах возникновения жизни[27].

Пыль вольфрама, как и большинство других видов металлической пыли, раздражает органы дыхания.

На английском

Tungsten, at atomic number Z = 74, is the heaviest element known to be biologically functional. It is used by some bacteria and archaea,[110] but not in eukaryotes. For example, enzymes called oxidoreductases use tungsten similarly to molybdenum by using it in a tungsten-pterin complex with molybdopterin (molybdopterin, despite its name, does not contain molybdenum, but may complex with either molybdenum or tungsten in use by living organisms). Tungsten-using enzymes typically reduce carboxylic acids to aldehydes.[111] The tungsten oxidoreductases may also catalyse oxidations. The first tungsten-requiring enzyme to be discovered also requires selenium, and in this case the tungsten-selenium pair may function analogously to the molybdenum-sulfur pairing of some molybdopterin-requiring enzymes.[112] One of the enzymes in the oxidoreductase family which sometimes employ tungsten (bacterial formate dehydrogenase H) is known to use a selenium-molybdenum version of molybdopterin.[113] Acetylene hydratase is an unusual metalloenzyme in that it catalyzes a hydration reaction. Two reaction mechanisms have been proposed, in one of which there is a direct interaction between the tungsten atom and the C≡C triple bond.[114] Although a tungsten-containing xanthine dehydrogenase from bacteria has been found to contain tungsten-molydopterin and also non-protein bound selenium, a tungsten-selenium molybdopterin complex has not been definitively described.[115]

In soil, tungsten metal oxidizes to the tungstate anion. It can be selectively or non-selectively imported by some prokaryotic organisms and may substitute for molybdate in certain enzymes. Its effect on the action of these enzymes is in some cases inhibitory and in others positive.[116] The soil's chemistry determines how the tungsten polymerizes; alkaline soils cause monomeric tungstates; acidic soils cause polymeric tungstates.[117]

Sodium tungstate and lead have been studied for their effect on earthworms. Lead was found to be lethal at low levels and sodium tungstate was much less toxic, but the tungstate completely inhibited their reproductive ability.[118]

Tungsten has been studied as a biological copper metabolic antagonist, in a role similar to the action of molybdenum. It has been found that tetrathiotungstate [zh] salts may be used as biological copper chelation chemicals, similar to the tetrathiomolybdates.[119]

In archaea
Tungsten is essential for some archaea. The following tungsten-utilizing enzymes are known:

Aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase (AOR) in Thermococcus strain ES-1
Formaldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase (FOR) in Thermococcus litoralis
Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ferredoxin oxidoreductase (GAPOR) in Pyrococcus furiosus
A wtp system is known to selectively transport tungsten in archaea:

WtpA is tungsten-binding protein of ABC family of transporters
WptB is a permease
WtpC is ATPase[120]

Есть еще научная работа (но она за пайволлом):

Tungsten in Biological Systems