Biochemistry

Ethylene is a simple gaseous plant hormone produced by higher plants, bacteria and fungi.

The book presents the method of thermodynamic Green Functions applied to the problems of electrochemistry.

Oxygenases have been the subject of much study and are of great interest and application.

There is now a considerable literature on chemical ecology, which had its beginnings in the study of insect pheromones.

The highly structured eucaryotic cell with its complex division of biochemical labour requires a distinct protein complement in each cellular structure and compartment.

The 1997 European Conference on Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM) is the seventh in a biennial series of conferences devoted to the applications of molecular spectroscopy to biological molecules and related systems.

Although debated since the time of Darwin, the evolutionary role of mutation is still controversial.

This book summarizes the results of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Syntheses, Optical Properties, and Applications of Near-Infrared (NIR) Dyes in High Technology Fields"e; held at Trest (Czech Republic) from September 24 to 27, 1997.

Leading researchers in the area of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe contributed to Exobiology: Matter, Energy, and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe.

Antibodies are crucial to the fine specificity of the immune system.

Over the past decade, advances in molecular biology have provided the impetus for a resurgence of interest in plant metabolism.

From August 10 to August 15, 1998, an international Advanced Research Workshop-Lecture Course on The chloroplast: from Molecular Biology to Biotechnology was held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari-Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece.

Inputs of nitrogen to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have increased several-fold over the last one hundred and fifty years, with the steepest increases during the last four decades.

The question of the existence of other worlds and other living beings has been present in the human quest for knowledge since as far as Epicurus.

RNA Biochemistry and Biotechnology describes various aspects of nucleic acid and protein structure, mainly RNA structure and proteins, interacting with specific RNA species.

Investigation of the structure and function of biological molecules through spectroscopic methods is a field rich in revealing, clever techniques and demanding experiments.

Generation of oxidants or reactive oxygen species is a natural process of human biology.

Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes.

The nitrogen-containing ring structures are at the hub of metabolism and include ATP, nucleic acids, many coenzymes, metabolic regulators and integrators such as adenosine and GTP, signalling compounds such as cyclic nucleotides and plant cytokinins and biochemically functional pigmets of which haemoglobin, the cytochromes and chlorophyll are examples.

During the last 50 years, the perception oftransposable elements (TEs) has changed considerably from selfish DNA to sequences that may contribute significantly to genome function and evolution.

For chemists, biochemists, physicists and materials scientists, pressure as an experimental variable represents a tool that provides unique information about the microscopic properties of the materials being studied.

Human health as well as aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are threatened from increa- sing levels of environmental radiation of various sources, many of them of anthropoge- nic causality: large areas of the former Soviet Union suffer from radioactive pollution, in particular after the Chemobyl accident; the increase in the incidence of UVB radiati- on at the Earth's surface as a result of a progressive depletion of stratospheric ozone is a global problem that requires international concerted actions; in areas of former uranium mining the natural radiation level is substantially increased due to elevated radon levels; a growing portion of the population involved in air traffic is exposed to increased levels of natural radiation; and with the International Space Station an increasing number of astronauts will be exposed to the complex field of cosmic radiation.

A summary of all the most important aspects of supramolecular science, from molecular recognition in chemical and biological systems to supramolecular devices, materials and catalysis.

Seeds provide more than half of the world's intake of dietary protein and energy and thus are of immense economic, cultural and nutritional importance.

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide.

The advantages of the baculovirus system are rooted in the properties of the virus and the host (insect, or cell lines derived from it).

Once considered merely `selfish' or `parasitic' DNA, transposable elements are today recognized as being of major biological significance.

This timely publication fills a large gap in the ophthalmic literature which has so far lacked a monograph on the clinically very important subject of macular edema.

The first edition of this book appeared in 1982.

Two decades have passed since the mechanisms of protein synthesis became well enough understood to permit the genetic modification oforganisms.

Autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) is a classical autoimmune disease, for which the target antigen, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, has been cloned, sequenced and biochemically characterized.

Abnormal metabolism and distribution of both copper and zinc occurs in many inflammatory and degenerative diseases.

Photosynthesis is a process on which virtually all life on Earth depends.

This book has been a long time in preparation.

Epithelial cells probably constitute the most diverse group of cells found in the body.

Both scientifically and socially the Vlth International Symposium on Amyloidosis, August 5 - 8, 1990 in Oslo was a great success.

One of the central problems in the study of the mechanism of DNA-ligand interactions is the existence and nature of sequence specificity with respect to the base pairs of DNA.

Mixed valency is one of various names used to describe compounds which contain ions of the same element in two different formal states of oxidation.

Separation processes in biotechnology are of increasing industrial importance since they entail the major costs of bioprocessing especially when high purity is required.

This proceedings is based on a joint meeting of the two IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations) Working Parties, Somatic Cell Genetics (S2.

It is over sixty years since Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis between a Penicillium mould and bacterial cultures and gave the name penicillin to the active principle.

Tropical climates, which occur between 23(deg)30'N and S latitude (Jacob 1988), encompass a wide variety of plant communities (Hartshorn 1983, 1988), many of which are diverse in their woody floras.

The complement system is a group of proteins which plays a major role in the processing and removal of microorganisms and tissue breakdown products from the circulation and extracellular spaces.