This comprehensive book explores both the fundamental and practical aspects of microbial genetics, shedding light on viroids, viruses, phytoplasma, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
Organ Development, Volume 132, the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapter written by an international board of authors.
Molecular Biological Markers for Toxicology and Risk Assessment provides an introduction to the exciting field of biomarkers and their use in toxicology and risk assessment.
This book covers various state-of-the-art techniques regarding the associations between transcription factors (TFs) and genes, with a focus on providing methodological and practical references for researchers.
New Experimental Probes for Enzyme Specificity and Mechanism, Volume 685, the latest release in the Methods of Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics including Subverting Hedgehog Protein Autoprocessing by Chemical Induction of Paracatalysis, New Mechanistic Probes to Identify Novel Substrates for N-Myristoyltransferases, Phosphonate and a Fluorophosphonate Analogues of D Glucose 6 Phosphate as Active-Site Probes of 1L-Myo-Inositol 1 phosphate Synthase, Kinetic Mechanism of Nicotine-Degrading Enzyme Probed by Stopped-Flow Kinetic Analyses, Kinetics and Mechanism for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions of Substrate Pieces, and more.
Structural genomics is the systematic determination of 3-D structures of proteins representative of the range of protein structure and function found in nature.
This book provides a comprehensive reference for various plant bioactive compounds for research and pharmacological significance across the entire spectrum of phytochemical genomics.
Precision Medicine for Investigators, Practitioners and Providers addresses the needs of investigators by covering the topic as an umbrella concept, from new drug trials to wearable diagnostic devices, and from pediatrics to psychiatry in a manner that is up-to-date and authoritative.
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches, and ideas in molecular biology.
Written as an advanced text for toxicology students, this book is much more than an introduction and provides in-depth information describing the underlying mechanisms through which toxicants produce their adverse responses.
This book gives an accessible, detailed overview on techniques of single molecule biophysics (SMB), showing how they are applied to numerous biological problems associated with understanding the molecular mechanisms of DNA replication, transcription, and translation, as well as functioning of molecular machines.
A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group-a small group of scientists who gathered around Max Delbruck, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960-and how this novel research program became the foundation of the field of molecular biology.
Understanding the functions and properties of molecules in living systems requires a detailed knowledge of their three-dimensional structures and the conformational variability that allows them to adopt multiple functional forms.
Bringing together a series of articles on the structural, functional, and developmental characteristics of epithelia, this volume represents a timely and valuable contribution to a growing field of study.
Human Molecular Genetics has been carefully crafted over successive editions to provide an authoritative introduction to the molecular aspects of human genetics, genomics and cell biology.
There has been a tremendous advancement in cancer therapeutics, and this book focuses on new approaches to one of the major cancers of the female reproductive system-cervical cancer.
Sixteen topics from the results of the research project "e;Molecular Mechanisms for Responses of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to the Environment,"e; are documented in this excellent and timely work.
Replication-Coupled Repair, Volume 661 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including the Repair of replication-born DNA breaks by sister chromatid recombination, High resolution and high throughput DNA cyclization measurements to interrogate DNA bendability, A programmable detection method for genomic signatures: from disease diagnosis to genome editing, Characterization of the telomerase modulating activities of yeast DNA helicases, Eukaryotic DNA replication with purified budding yeast proteins, Single molecule studies of yeast Rad51 paralogs, Light activation and deactivation of Cas9 for DNA repair studies, and more.
This book gives a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste and discusses the main process conditions needed to overcome the difficulties of using waste as alternative raw materials.
Plant cell walls have been relevant for human survival throughout evolution, from cell walls recognised as an essential ingredient in human and livestock nutrition, to their use in energy generation, construction, tool making, paper and clothing.
International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology (IRCMB), Volume 330 includes comprehensive and detailed reviews on the current advances in cell and molecular biology.
Our biological system is enriched with enzyme-catalyzed (or enzymatic) reactions that mediate a great multitude of life processes such as gene transcription and metabolism, and the inappropriately up-regulated activity of these enzymatic reactions is a major cause of human diseases such as cancer and metabolic diseases.
This edited book provides an overview of omics technologies and methods for integration across multiple omics layers used in the plant disease diagnosis and developing management strategies.
Omics Approaches in Veterinary Parasitology: Diagnosis, Biomarkers, and Drug Development explores applications of omics approaches for diagnosis, biomarker discovery, and drug development against parasites of veterinary importance.
Fungal Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics, Volume 100, the latest release in the Advances in Genetics series, presents users with new chapters that delve into such topics as the Advances of fungal phylogenomics and the impact on fungal systematics, Data crunching for fungal phylogenomics: insights into data collection and phylogenetic inference based on genome data for fungi, Genomic and epigenomic traits of emerging fungal pathogens, Advances in fungal gene cluster diversity and evolution, Phylogenomics of Fusarium oxysporum species complex, Phylogenomic analyses of pathogenic yeasts, and the Phylogenetics and phylogenomics of rust fungi.
Comprising by far the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates, fishes occupy a broad swathe of habitats ranging from the deepest ocean abyss to the highest mountain lakes.
Immuno-Oncology And Immunotherapy - Part B Volume 190, in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.