Biochemistry

This unique volume reviews the beautiful architectures and varying mechanical actions of the set of specialized cellular proteins called molecular chaperones, which provide essential kinetic assistance to processes of protein folding and unfolding in the cell.

This book presents the multifaceted aspects of rare earth elements (REEs), focusing on both their potential benefits and adverse health effects.

This book will serve as the preeminent text book on the topic of 'base excision repair', a key DNA repair pathway that protects cells from most spontaneous forms of DNA damage, including oxidative lesions that arise both in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.

Understanding Enzymes: Function, Design, Engineering, and Analysis focuses on the understanding of enzyme function and optimization gained in the past decade, past enzyme function analysis, enzyme engineering, and growing insights from the simulation work and nanotechnology measurement of enzymes in action in vitro or in silico.

Liposomes have been widely explored in the drug delivery realm over the past decades.

This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy.

This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy.

Aptamers, often termed as 'chemical antibodies,' are an emerging class of synthetic ligands for efficient target-specific molecular recognition.

Untangling Molecular Biodiversity presents a unique global framework to explain molecular and organismal biodiversity that is grounded in evolutionary genomics.

This book describes the design and the use of bioluminescent biosensors.

Enzyme immobilization on solid supports has been considered for a long time as an attractive solution to perform sophisticated organic synthesis, which is required in the preparation of fine pharmaceutical chemicals.

The presence of chemicals in our environment is a subject of intense interest owing to the many potential adverse health effects to humans following exposure to these chemicals.

A select group of 40 eminent scientists from all parts of the world met to consider the current state of chemical and biological knowledge on the ever-expanding protein universe, and to discuss emerging opportunities for the foreseeable future.

This book deals with the clinical aspects and interpretation of test results of disorders commonly encountered by clinicians and the chemical pathology laboratory.

Many biological phenomena are especially interesting from a physical point of view, and recent developments have made it possible to perform quantitative, 'physics-style' experiments on many different biological systems.

Organisms frequently synthesize enzymes in multiple molecular forms to catalyze the same basic biochemical reactions.

This monograph is edited on the basis of the lecture contents of invited speakers and some oral presentations at the IUBMB Symposium on Protein Structure and Function.

The last decade revealed to auditory researchers that hair cells can not only detect and process mechanical energy, but are also able to produce it.

This book provides the most up-to-date information on the ever-growing class of peptides with high biological activity, which function as hormones or neurotransmitters and have analogous structures.

The first symposium on Charge and Field Effects in Biosystems held in 1983 was created primarily to loosen the bonds of previous conferences by expanding the topics to include not only the electrochemistry of biochemical but also metabolically viable biological systems.

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing brings together key researchers from the international biocomputing community.

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance.

The meetings 'At the Frontier of Physics and Biology' are by now regularly organized workshops in Les Houches, France.

This highly illustrated book provides an up-to-date description of the structure and function of the translation system including ribosomes, tRNAs, translation factors, antibiotics and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

This book describes some mathematical and physical aspects of emulsion behavior, starting from the fundamental theories of diffusion, Brownian movement and sedimentation of particles in a fluid (Chapters 1, 2 and 3 respectively).

High dilution effects constitute a major problem on the frontier of biophysics.

This monograph describes the determination by X-ray methods and the structural analysis of one of the largest single polypeptide chain proteins, glycogen phosphorylase.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the works in the rapidly evolving field of neural networks and brain studies.

Experts provide a unique and broad perspective of the theoretical tools available today to analyze protein structure and function.

The volume presents a survey of the research by Kurt Wuthrich and his associates during the period 1965 to 1994.

The book presents a new scientific approach to the problem of biomechanical systems description.

This important volume is mainly concerned with the development of methods for "e;sequencing"e; - that is, determination of the order of the amino acids in proteins and of nucleotides in RNA and DNA.

This volume is a collection of articles written by Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini and published from 1942 to 1995.

This book aims to open new fields of interest in phosphate chemistry and to suggest a new system of classification for phosphates.

The biological activation of dioxygen is a key reaction in biological systems.

The book gives a review of penicillin production by Penicillium chrysogenum, and also deals with a number of general aspects of fungal cultivations, e.

This book is principally concerned with the relatively complex small molecules produced by plants, which are important as drugs, fine chemicals, fragrances, flavours and biologically-active dietary constituents.

Linus Pauling called haemoglobin the most interesting and important of molecules.

The porphyrins, chlorophylls, bilins and related tetrapyrroles are vital for all living organisms.

Myelopeptides are a new class of endogenous bioregulatory peptides.

This invaluable volume, written by an international group of scientists, presents an overview of the AdoMet-dependent methyltransferases, with special emphasis on structure-function relationships.

The first two chapters of this invaluable book trace the developments of the chemistry and macromolecular structures, respectively, of proteins and nuclei acids.

Excitons are considered as the basic concept used by describing the spectral properties of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes and excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna and reaction centers.

The Finnish doctor Kari Cantell is one of the scientists to whom the development of the drugs called interferons can be attributed.

The Third International Conference on Isotopes focused on the theme of "e;Isotope Production and Applications in the 21st Century"e; and included presentations by several eminent experts in this field.

Like inanimate matter, biological matter is condensed, though it may be more complex.

This innovative and comprehensive reference book provides the most up-to-date information pertaining to the translational research field of oxidative stress and aging.

Light-emitting reactions occur in some living organisms, and are also now extensively exploited by industry and various branches of biomedical science.

A protein requires its own three-dimensional structure for its biological activity.