Biochemistry

Taurine 9 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XIX International Taurine Meeting held in Krakow, Poland in May 2014.

This thesis examines the evidence for regulatory ubiquitination by focusing on A20.

Protein kinase CK2 (formerly casein kinase II or 2) is known to play a critical role in the control of cell growth and cell death and is thus intimately involved in the development of cancer.

This edited, multi-author volume contains 14 selected, peer-reviewed contributions based on the presentations given at the 18th International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (QSCP XVIII), held at Casa da Cultura de Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December 2013.

This book is written for researchers and students interested in the function and role of chemical elements in biological or environmental systems.

Computational methods, and in particular quantum chemistry, have taken the lead in our growing understanding of noncovalent forces, as well as in their categorization.

Medicinal chemistry is both science and art.

This collection discusses the variety of specific molecular reactions by means of which plants respond to physiological and toxic stress conditions.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research.

Obesity is a multi-factorial disease, in which an excess of accumulated body fat can reach levels capable of affecting health.

This book describes more than 60 web-accessible computational tools for protein analysis and is totally practical, with detailed explanations on how to use these tools and interpret their results and minimal mentions to their theoretical basis (only when that is required for making a better use of them).

The book will discuss classes of proteins and their folding, as well as the involvement of bioinformatics in solving the protein folding problem.

This authoritative Fourth Edition summarizes the advances of the past decade concerning the structure, mechanism, and biochemistry of cytochrome P450 enzymes, with sufficient coverage of earlier work to make each chapter a comprehensive review of the field.

After sequencing the human genome a decade ago, researchers have continued their projects, but now to try to better understand how, and when, genes are expressed in health and disease.

This book devotes a chapter to each RTK family and the multiple receptors within each family, thoroughly covering all of the RTKs.

Tryptophan metabolism via kynurenine pathway plays a critical role in both health and a variety of human diseases.

Co-chaperones are important mediators of the outcome of chaperone assisted protein homeostasis, which is a dynamic balance between the integrated processes of protein folding, degradation and translocation.

This book presents various examples of how advanced fluorescence and spectroscopic analytical methods can be used in combination with computer data processing to address different biochemical questions.

For design purposes one needs to relate the structure of proposed materials to their NLO (nonlinear optical) and other properties, which is a situation where theoretical approaches can be very helpful in providing suggestions for candidate systems that subsequently can be synthesized and studied experimentally.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

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This book highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil and water contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, nutrients, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This book reviews the current state of information on reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and their role in cell communication during plant growth, development and adaptation to stress conditions.

In this volume, a detailed description of cutting-edge computational methods applied to protein modeling as well as specific applications are presented.

Inthis thesis single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer(FRET)spectroscopy was used to study the folding of a protein that belongsto the large and important family of repeat proteins.

This comprehensive volume discusses the protease ADAMTS13, summarizing the current status of basic and clinical research.

In this brief, Vladimir Uversky discusses the paradigm-shifting phenomenon of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and hybrid proteins containing ordered domains and functional IDP regions (IDPRs).

This second of two volumes discusses subfamily proteins which function in molecular and vesicular transport mechanisms inside the cell.

This book focuses on the mechanistic (microscopic) understanding of radionuclide uptake by plants in contaminated soils and potential use of phytoremediation.

Martin Stein's thesis describes a novel methodology for natural product discovery.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art update on Fc Receptors (FcRs).

The unique responses of plants to combined stresses have been observed at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels.

Forests and vegetation emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) into the atmosphere which, once oxidized, can partition into the particle phase, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs).

This Brief reviews the chemistry behind the production of yoghurt through acidification of milk.

The work described in this book is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research in systems biology.

Recent developments in computer science enable algorithms previously perceived as too time-consuming to now be efficiently used for applications in bioinformatics and life sciences.

This book covers the key features of nitric oxide (NO) in plants.

This book is devoted to the fascinating superfamily of plant ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and their variety of transported substrates.

In her thesis, Sara Bobone outlines spectroscopic studies of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) which are promising lead compounds for drugs used to fight multidrug resistant bacteria.

Many biologists and ecologists have developed models that find widespread use in theoretical investigations and in applications to organism behavior, disease control, population and metapopulation theory, ecosystem dynamics, and environmental management.

This volume explores the use of mass spectrometry for biomedical applications.

This SpringerBrief explores the physiological roles of Skp1-Cullin1-F-box Complex (SCF) and Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC) in normal cells and in tumor formation.

This book covers the state-of-the-art of modern MALDI (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization) and its applications.

This volume presents detailed descriptions and analyses of the underlying features, issues and suppositions associated with seed and seedling laboratory bioassays presented in a previous volume.

The 44th volume of RAP contains articles based on work presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America.

In this fifth edition of Jack Jie Li's seminal "e;Name Reactions"e;, the author has added twenty-seven new name reactions to reflect the recent advances in organic chemistry.

This book discusses how biological molecules exert their function and regulate biological processes, with a clear focus on how conformational dynamics of proteins are critical in this respect.

This thesis describes the first and long-sought successful synthesis of a new pyrazole-expanded porphyrin, a higher analog of porphyrin.

In this acclaimed thesis, Eva Maria Huber reveals ground-breaking results by elucidating the crystal structure of the murine immunoproteasome in complex with a selective inhibitor.