Chemical biology

This book is a translation of Emil Fischer's autobiography published in 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany.

In recent years, much information has been revealed concerning the essential role of helicases, the enzymes that utilize the energy derived from nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis to unwind the double stranded helical structure of nucleic acids.

This manual provides insights into the theory and practical aspects of several biotechnological and biochemical techniques for plants, protozoa, nematodes, insects and fishes, as well as human samples.

Biological membranes are the essential structuring elements of all living cells.

Post-translational protein modifications by members of the ubiquitin family are widely recognized as important regulatory control systems for a variety of biological pathways.

This detailed volume explores perspectives and methods using cell-free expression (CFE) to enable next-generation synthetic biology applications.

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;.

Efforts to describe and model the molecular structure of biological membranes go back to the beginning of the last century.

The volume explores methods for isolation and characterization of lipids, and their production using various oleaginous organisms.

This volume presents an overview of nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) structure and function.

This volume explores techniques used to study either the structure or the functions of caveolae and their components in several normal and pathophysiological situations.

Today, activation endoproteolysis of secretory proteins is recognized as a fundamental biological mechanism of spatial and temporal regulation of protein activity as well as of diversification of protein functions.

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.

At the time of the lightbulb's invention, not even the most imaginative thinkers could have predicted the prevention and treatment of disease through genes delivered by electric fields.

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 volume details cutting-edge methods and protocols for the development, characterization, and applications of multienzyme assemblies.

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.

This detailed volume presents a variety of specialized analytical methods on a wide range of glycolipids.

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

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

Oxygen exists in two gaseous (dioxygen and ozone) and six solid allotropic modifications.

Cyberbiosecurity applies cybersecurity research to the field of biology, and, to a lesser degree, applies biological principles to the field of cybersecurity.

Cyberbiosecurity applies cybersecurity research to the field of biology, and, to a lesser degree, applies biological principles to the field of cybersecurity.

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

This detailed volume provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art metabolomics methods based on mass spectrometry (MS), and their application in food, nutrition, and biomedical research.

This book presents an authoritative review of the most significant findings about all the epigenetic targets (writers, readers, and erasers) and their implication in physiology and pathology.

Macrophages are core components of the innate immune system.

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an acellular three-dimensional network composed of proteins, glycoproteins, proteoglycans and exopolysaccharides.

This book provides a comprehensive, organized, and concise overview of xenobiotic metabolic enzymes and their health implications.

In August 2017, the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (CSiV) group held its 14th triennial meeting at Cardiff University in Wales.

This Microbiology Monographs volume covers the latest advances in laccase applications in bioremediation and waste valorisation.

This book provides a comprehensive description of sterols and their novel biological roles in mammalian signaling, the book covers their biosynthesis and structure, describes sterol receptor -mediated actions, their tissue distribution and their role in disease.

Proteomics is a well-established area of Science; yet with a strong area in constant evolution, namely sample treatment.

In this book, the major paradigm-shifting discoveries made in the past century on key cellular nanomachines are described in great detail: their complex yet precise and elegant design and function, as well as the diseases linked to their dysfunction and the therapeutic approaches to overcome them.

The Organizing Committee of the 15th International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases compiled a group of junior investigators to provide reviews on the topics they presented at the Puerto Vallarta Bioactive Lipids conference, as part of the book series, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB).

Accessible and comprehensive, this book describes the universal cellular nature of living organisms and is an indispensable tool for anyone in the sciences who wishes to get a quick overview of molecular biology.

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

This book describes the discovery of molecules from unexploited extreme marine environments, and presents new approaches in marine genomics.

This book will give an overview on viruses undergoing proteolytic activation through host proteases.

The inflammasome was first described in 2002 as a molecular complex activating proinflammatory caspases and therefore regulating the maturation and biological activities of cytokines such as IL-1?

The authors of this contributed volume define various inclusions and supramolecular structures in prokaryotes as discrete bodies.

This book examines the commercial role of various microbial polysaccharides and recent advances in their production.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments achieved in the field of chemo/enzymatic cascades with topics spanning from design (in vitro and in vivo) to kinetic- and process modelling as well as process control.

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a macromolecule that plays a central role in cell physiology: RNA molecules act as intermediates between the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), where genetic information is stored, and proteins, which perform the necessary functions within the cell.

In this Edited Volume, a diverse group of exercise metabolism experts, assembled a multi-facetted collection of fascinating contributions.

This textbook presents a concise comparison of catalytic and biocatalytic systems outlining their catalytic properties and peculiarities.

This book covers edge-point applications in science and engineering.

The book presents recent remediation techniques for heavy metal contamination in wastewater, with a focus on recently-developed and sustainable materials such as metal oxides and their composites, two-dimensional materials, organic-inorganic ion exchange materials, nanomaterials, bagasse, and olive-oil waste chelating materials.

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.