Chemical biology

This book provides a comprehensive introduction and review of state-of-the-art biotechnological tools in enhancement of bioactive compounds in medicinal and aromatic plants.

Cyclic peptides are increasingly employed as chemical tools in biology and drug discovery.

This book covers recent advances and future trends in yeast synthetic biology, providing readers with an overview of computational and engineering tools, and giving insight on important applications.

This book discusses the basics of nanotoxicity and gives a detailed account of methods used for toxicity evaluation of nanomaterials.

The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last few decades.

In 1890 a case of myxedema was treated in Lisbon by the implantation of a sheep thyroid gland with the immediate improvement in the patient's condition.

This text examines in detail mathematical and physical modeling, computational methods and systems for obtaining and analyzing biological structures, using pioneering research cases as examples.

This volume reviews numerous reaction mechanisms and applications of nucleic acids with catalytic activity.

In the last few years there have been many exciting and innovative developments in the field of membrane protein structure and this trend is set to continue.

This book covers recent advances and future trends in yeast synthetic biology, providing readers with an overview of computational and engineering tools, and giving insight on important applications.

Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components.

This third edition provides new and updated chapters detailing preparation of liposomes, physicochemical characterization of liposomes, lipid analysis, drug encapsulation, surface modification, stimuli response as well as cellular interaction, and biodistribution.

Carbohydrate Chemistry provides review coverage of all publications relevant to the chemistry of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides in a given year.

The popularity of the plant Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) has risen due to increasing use and interest in its sweet constituents called steviol glycosides.

Comparative neurological studies of the evolutionary development of struc- tures within the central nervous system of vertebrates have depended to a large extent upon morphological rather than functional criteria.

This book reviews the structure of different biological adhesives and the mechanisms by which they achieve interfacial adhesion, cohesive strength, and fracture toughness.

Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized.

This book offers a new physical chemistry perspective on the control of lipid oxidation reactions by antioxidants, and it further explores the application of several oxidation inhibition strategies on food and biological systems.

This book covers a wide range of state-of-the-art methodologies and detailed protocols currently used to study the actions that lipid-activated nuclear receptors and their co-regulators have in tissues and immune cell types considered classic metabolic "e;powerhouses"e;.

In this volume, glycochemistry and glycobiology have been combined to demonstrate the contribution of organic chemistry, modern analytics, biological and biochemical expertise to the increasingly important field of glycomics.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the biological functions of melanins, their biotechnological production, and their industrial applications.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the latest developments, challenges and trends in C1-based (one-carbon based) bioproduction, and it presents an authoritative account of one-carbon compounds as promising alternative microbial feedstocks.

This second edition provides new and updated techniques and applications associated with synthetic biology.

Initially believed to be inactive molecules, glycans are now considered essential for life, both under normal and pathological conditions.

Dealing with the latest information on polysaccharide gum research, particularly focused on gum Arabic, as discussed at the World Conference on "e;New developments in Acacia Gums Research and Products"e;, this book covers the production, identification, classification and application of these important carbohydrate polymers.

This book highlights the advantages of using sorbents in oil spill cleanup while dealing with the challenges of limited capacity and disposal.

Understanding the major factors determining the specificity of transmembrane transfer processes in proteins is now a hot topic in molecular bio-science.

This volume presents updated methods and new developments in the field of mass spectrometry imaging.

This volume summarizes our current understanding of the structural basis of the functions of arrestin family of proteins.

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This interdisciplinary textbook provides an easy-to-understand and highly topical introduction to all the specialist areas of modern enzyme technology.

Three invited international experts present overviews of recent developments in key fields and will submit chapters for the book.

Lipids are responsible not just for constituting cellular membrane but also for storing energy, transducing signaling, and modifying proteins.

This book introduces readers to industrially important enzymes and discusses in detail their structures and functions, as well as their manifold applications.

This book provides a selection of recently developed methods and protocols in bacterial glycomics to aid in bettering our understanding of the structures and functions of bacterial polysaccharides, their attachments to proteins and lipids, their role in biofilm formation, as well as their biosynthesis.

This 2nd edition of the book on DNA methyltransferases has been comprehensively updated to reflect many novel research findings regarding the structure, function, and technology of these enzymes that have emerged over the past 6 years.

This book discusses the many advances in the understanding of the functions and implications of activation and detoxification enzymes.

This book outlines the interaction of cadmium with the proteome and signalling molecules of mammalian cells.

This volume details applications, methods, and protocols on nucleic acid amplification.

Gamma-Glutamyl Transpeptidases (y-GTs) are members of the N-terminal nucleophile hydrolase superfamily, enzymes that cleave the y-glutamyl amide bond of glutathione to liberate cysteinylglycine.

This book highlights the advantages of using sorbents in oil spill cleanup while dealing with the challenges of limited capacity and disposal.

This collection explores detailed experimental protocols necessary for setting up a variety of in vitro cytochrome P450 (CYP) assays that are vital in selecting drug candidates in a drug discovery pipeline.

Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized.

This collection explores the latest advances in riboregulators, such as RNA-only systems and ribonucleoprotein systems, and provides detailed techniques to study, evolve, and design them.

This detailed book provides technical approaches to tackle a variety of questions related to intracellular lipid transport in order to improve our understanding at different scales of how lipids are accurately displaced between organelles, across long distances or at membrane contact sites, or within cellular membranes.

This thesis describes a series of investigations designed to assess the value of metalloenzymes in systems for artificial and adapted photosynthesis.

This book discusses the basics of nanotoxicity and gives a detailed account of methods used for toxicity evaluation of nanomaterials.

This detailed book explores examples of current in vitro and in silico techniques that are at the forefront of lipid membrane research today.

The 15th Meeting on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (CSiV) reunited participants from 20 countries from 5 continents who "e;electronically commuted"e; to Dijon, France, during three days (3-5 November 2021).