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F. G. Barth, University of Vienna, Austria; Y. Chevolot, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon G. Drewes, M. Bantscheff, Cellzome AG, Heidelberg, J. A. Humphrey, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (INL), Ecully, France (Ed.) Germany (Eds.) VA, USA; M. V. Srinivasan, The Queensland Brain Institute, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia (Eds.) Carbohydrate Microarrays Chemical Proteomics Frontiers in Sensing Methods and Protocols Methods and Protocols From Biology to Engineering Contents Contents Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Glycan Mass Spectrometry-Based Chemoproteomic Contents Microarray Technology.- Chemical Synthesis of Approaches.-Chemical Proteomics in Drug Preface.- I. General: 1. From biology to engi- Carbohydrates and Their Surface Immobilisation: Discovery.-Compound Immobilization and Drug- neering: insect vision and applications to A Brief Introduction.- General Consideration Affinity Chromatography.-Affinity-based Chemo- robotics.- 2. Nature as model for technical on Sialic Acid Chemistry.- Synthesis of Azido- proteomics with Small Molecule-Peptide Conju- sensors.- II. Vision. A. Seeing: 3. Color sensing Functionalized Carbohydrates for the Design of gates.- A Chemical Proteomic Probe for Detecting of butterflies.- 4. Insect tangential cell analogues Glycoconjugates.- Polypyrrole-Oligosaccharide Dehydrogenases: Catechol Rhodanine.-Probing and implications for efficient visuomotor control.- Microarray for the Measurement of Biomolecular Proteomes with Benzophenone Photoprobes.- 5. Biologically inspired enhancement of dim Interactions by Surface Plasmon Resonance Biotinylated Probes for the Analysis of Protein light video.- 6. Event-based silicon retinas and Imaging.- Glycosylated Self-Assembled Mono- Modification by Electrophiles.-Profiling of cochleas.- B. Visual control: 7. The mode-sensing layers for Arrays and Surface Analysis.- Carbohy- Methyltransferases and Other S-adenosyl-l-homo- hypothesis: matching sensors, actuators and drate Microarrays for Enzymatic Reactions and cysteine-Binding Proteins by Capture Compound flight dynamics.- 8. Adaptive encoding of motion Quantification of Binding Affinities for Glycan- Mass Spectrometry (CCMS).-Identifying Cellular information in the fly visual system.- 9 Visual Protein Interactions.- Neoglycolipid (NGL)-Based Targets of Small-Molecule Probes and Drugs with motion sensing and flight path control in flies.- III. Oligosaccharide Microarray System: Preparation of Biochemical Enrichment and SILAC.-Determina- Olfaction: 10. Cuticular hydrocarbon sensillum for NGLs and Their Non-Covalent Immobilization on tion of Kinase Inhibitor Potencies in Cell Extracts nestmate recognition in ants.- 11. Fluid mechan- Nitrocellulose-Coated Glass Slides for Microarray by Competition Binding Assays and Isobaric Mass ical problems in crustacean active chemorecep- Analyses.- Preparation of a Mannose-6-phos- Tags.-Affinity-Based Profiling of Dehydrogenase tion.- 12. Stagnation point flow analysis of odorant phate Glycan Microarray Through Fluorescent Subproteomes.- Probing the Specificity of Protein- detection by permeable moth antennae.- IV. Derivatization, Phosphorylation, and Immobili- Protein Interactions by Quantitative Chemical Mechanoreception. A. Hearing: 13. Man made zation of Natural High-mannose N-glycans and Proteomics.- Fluorescence-Based Proteasome versus biological in-air sonar systems.- B. Touch: its Application in Ligand Identification of P-type Activity Profiling.- Chemical Cross-Linking 14. Active sensing: head and vibrissal velocity Lectins.- Production of Fluorous-Based Microar- and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry to during exploratory behaviors of the rat.- 15. Touch rays with Uncharged Carbohydrates.- General Study Protein-Drug Interactions.- Monitoring mechanoreceptors: modeling and simulating the Procedure for the Synthesis of Neoglycoproteins Ligand Modulation of Protein-Protein Interac- skin and receptors to predict the timing of action and Immobilization on Epoxide-Modified Glass tions by Chemical Cross-Linking and High-Mass potentials.- C. Medium motion: 16. Assessing the Slides.- Immobilization of Polyacrylamide-Based MALDI Mass Spectrometry.- Time-Controlled mechanical response of groups of arthropod fili- Glycoconjugates on Solid Phase in Immunosor- Transcardiac Perfusion Crosslinking for In Vivo form flow sensors.- D. Strain and substrate motion: bent Assays.- Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Interactome Studies.-Ligand Discovery Using 17. Spider strain detection.- 18. The golden mole Analysis of Protein Binding to a Sialoside-Based Small-Molecule Microarrays.-Working with Small middle ear: a sensor for airborne and substrate- Carbohydrate Microarray.- Glycoarray by DNA Molecules – Preparing and Storing Stock Solutions borne vibrations.- 19. Insect inertial measurement Directed Immobilization.... and Determination of Kinetic Solubility.-A Data- units: gyroscopic sensing of body rotation.- V.... base for Chemical Proteomics - ChEBI.... Fields of interest Fields of interest Biochemistry, general; Microarrays; Carbohydrate Fields of interest Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering; Circuits Chemistry Protein Science; Proteomics and Systems Target groups Target groups Target groups Professional/practitioner Professional/practitioner Research Type of publication Type of publication Type of publication Contributed volume Contributed volume Professional book
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P. Eloranta, Jyväskylä; J. Kwandrans, Polish Academy G. C. Galizia, University of Konstanz, Germany; I. F. García-Tejero, V. H. Durán-Zuazo, of sciences, Kraków; E. Kusel-Fetzmann, Vienna D. Eisenhardt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; J. L. Muriel-Fernández, IFAPA Centro “Las Torres- Ecology Center, Universität Wien M. Giurfa, CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Tomejil”, Seville, Spain; C. R. Rodríguez-Pleguezuelo, France (Eds.) IFAPA Centro “Camino de Purchil”, Granada, Spain Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd. 7 / Honeybee Neurobiology and Water and Sustainable Freshwater Flora of Central Behavior Agriculture Europe, Vol. 7: Rhodophyta A Tribute to Randolf Menzel Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general and Phaeophyceae The book is a sequel of a similar book, edited by agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals Randolf Menzel and Alison Mercer, “Neurobiology consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Volume 7 of the series “Süßwasserflora/Freshwater and Behavior of Honeybees”, published in 1987. It Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of Flora of Central Europe” covers the freshwater red is a “Festschrift” for the 70th birthday of Randolf fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in algae and brown algae of this region. Menzel, who devoted his life to the topic of the many parts of the world are biologically, economi- book. The book will include an open commentary cally, and socially unsustainable. Water manage- Features for each section written by Randolf Menzel, and ment should balance the need for agricultural 7 Indentification keys for the red and brown algae discussed with the authors. The written contribu- water and the need for a sustainable environment. from the freshwater of Central Europe 7 Up-to- tions take their inspiration from a symposium on Water-use efficiency is the prime challenge in date systematic 7 Compiled by three interna- the topic, with all the authors, that was held in worldwide farming practices where problems of tional specialists Berlin in summer 2010. water shortages are widespread. Currently, agricul- ture is undergoing significant changes in innova- Contents Features tive irrigation, fertilizer technology, and agro- Preface of the editors Rhodophyta (P. Eloranta J. 7 Comprehensive coverage of neuroscience and nomic expertise. These elements constitute a vital Kwandrans). - Preface of authors. - General part. behavior in an insect species 7 Book includes platform for sustainable agricultural success and - Classification Studies on the freshwater red algae open questions and visions for future research, for preventing environmental damage. This review particularly in Europe Origin and diversity. - Cyto- with commentaries 7 Collection of the world presents several processes linked to environmental logical characteristics. - Molecular studies Repro- leaders in honeybee research irrigation, balancing environmental protection duction and life cycles Growth forms. - Structure with improved agricultural production. of thallus in the families Batrachospermaceae and Contents Lemaneaceae. - Ecology and habitats Rhodophytes Preface.- Section 1. Mechanisms of social organi- Fields of interest versus trophy and saprobity Sampling and preser- zation.- Section 2. Communication and naviga- Agriculture vation Systematic part Class Rhodophyceae. - 1. tion.- Section 3. Brain anatomy and physiology.- Order Porphyridiales. - 2. Order Goniotrichales. Section 4. Sensory systems.- Section 5. Genetics Target groups - 3. Order Compsopogonales. - 4. Order Bangiales. and molecular biology.- Section 6. Learning and Research - 5. Order Acrochaetiales. - 6. Order Balbianiales. - memory. 7. Order Batrachospermales. - 8. Order Thoreales. Type of publication - 9. Order Hildenbrandiales. - References. - Glos- Fields of interest Monograph sary. - Species. - Index Entomology; Neurosciences; Behavioural Sciences
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D. K. Gupta, L. M. Sandalio, CSIC, Granada, Spain J. L. Hartley, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA J. v. Helden, A. Toussaint, Université Libre, Bruxelles, (Eds.) (Ed.) Belgium; D. Thieffry, TAGC - INSERM U928 & Univer- sité de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France (Eds.) Metal Toxicity in Plants: Protein Expression in Perception, Signaling and Mammalian Cells Bacterial Molecular Networks Remediation Methods and Protocols Methods and Protocols
Contents Features Contents Bacterial Molecular Networks: Bridging the Gap 7 Provides a clear overview of the topic Why Proteins in Mammalian Cells?.- Large Scale Between Functional Genomics and Dynamical 7 Describes present studies on signaling and Transfection of Mammalian Cells.- Selection of Modeling.- Bacterial Interactomes: From Interac- 7 remediation processes Includes multidisci- High Expressing Mammalian Cells by Surface tions to Networks.- From Bacterial to Microbial plinary studies paying special attention to the latest Display of Reporters.- Expression of a Secreted Ecosystems (Metagenomics).- Prokaryote Genome technology applied to the study of cell response Protein in Mammalian Cells Using Baculovirus Fluidity: Towards a System Approach of the against metal toxicity in plants Particles.- Transfection of Difficult-to-Transfect Mobilome.- Reticulate Classification of Mosaic Primary Mammalian Cells.- Stable Protein Expres- Microbial Genomes using NeAT Website.- From Contents sion in Mammalian Cells Using Baculoviruses.- Metabolic Reactions to Networks and Pathways.- Heavy Metal Bindings and Its Interactions with Using Matrix Attachment Regions to Improve Predicting Metabolic Pathways by Subnetwork Thiol Peptides and Other Biological Ligands Recombinant Protein Production.- Control- Extraction.- Directed Module Detection in a in Plant Cells.- Heavy Metal Perception in a ling Apoptosis to Optimize Yields of Proteins Large-scale Expression Compendium.- Using Microescale Environment: A Model System Using from Mammalian Cells.- Post-Transcriptional Phylogenetic Profiles to Predict Functional High Doses of Pollutants.- Genetic and Molecular Regulatory Elements for Enhancing Transient Relationships.- Extracting Regulatory Networks Aspects of Metal Tolerance and Hyperaccumu- Gene Expression Levels in Mammalian Cells.- of Escherichia coli from RegulonDB.- Browsing lation.- Cadmium and Copper Stress Induce a Converting Monoclonal Antibodies into Fab Metabolic and Regulatory Networks with BioCyc.- Cellular Oxidative Challenge Leading to Damage Fragments for Transient Expression in Mamma- Algorithms for Systematic Identification of Small Versus Signaling.- Insights into Cd Toxicity: lian Cells.- Generation of High-Expressing Cells Sub-graphs.- The Degree Distribution of Networks: Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Func- by Methotrexate Amplification of Destabilized Statistical Model Selection.- MAVisto: A Tool for tion.- Exploring the Plant Response to Cadmium Dihydrofolate Reductase Selection Marker.- Tools Biological Network Motif Analysis.- Using MCL to Exposure by Transcriptomic, Proteomic and for Co-Producing Multiple Proteins in Mamma- Extract Clusters from Networks.- Protein Complex Metabolomic Approaches: Potentiality of High- lian Cells.- Identification and Characterization of Prediction with RNSC (Method).- Network Throughput Methods, Promises of Integrated Protein Glycosylation Using Specific Endo- and Analysis and Protein Function Prediction with the Biology.- Proteomics as a Toolbox to Study the Exoglycosidases.- Strategies for the Efficient PRODISTIN Web Site.- Using the NeAT Toolbox Metabolic Adjustment of Trees During Exposure Transfection of CHO-Cells with Plasmid DNA.- to Compare Networks to Networks, Clusters to to Metal Trace Elements.- Proteomics of Plant Methods for Constructing Clones for Protein Clusters, and Networks to Clusters.- Analyzing Hyperaccumulators.- Heavy Metal Toxicity- Expression in Mammalian Cells.- Optimizing Biological Data Using R: Methods for Graphs Oxidative Stress Parameters and DNA Repair.- Transient Recombinant Protein Expression in and Networks.- Detecting Structural Invariants Protein Oxidative Modifications.- Zn/Cd/Co/Pb Mammalian Cells. in Biological Reaction Networks.- Petri nets in P1B-ATPases in Plants, Physiological Roles and Snoopy: A Unifying Framework for the Graphical Biological Interest.- Interference of Heavy Metals Field of interest Display, Computational Modelling, and Simulation Toxicity with Auxin Physiology. Protein Science of Bacterial Regulatory Networks....
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M. Kuro-o, University of Texas Southwestern Medical C. Lacuna-Richman, University of Eastern Finland J. Liu, G. Luo, Jilin University, Changchun, China; Center, Dallas, TX, USA (Ed.) (UEF), Joensuu, Finland Y. Mu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (Eds.) Endocrine FGFs and Klothos Growing from Seed Selenoproteins and Mimics An Introduction to Social Forestry Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) have been recog- Selenium has a long history of association with nized primarily as autocrine/paracrine factors that human health and disease. This essential trace regulate embryonic development and organogen- Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, element exerts its important biological role in sele- esis. However, recent studies have revealed that Community Forestry, have been practiced almost noproteins. “Selenoproteins and Mimics” presents some FGFs function as endocrine factors and as long as people have used forests. During this the latest developments in selenoproteins, their regulate various metabolic processes in adulthood. time, forests have provided people with countless functional imitation by biomimetic chemistry and Such FGFs, collectively called endocrine FGFs, are goods and services, including wood, medicine, biology, and their relationship with human health comprised of three members (FGF15/19, FGF21, food, clean water and recreation. and diseases. and FGF23: FGF15 is the mouse ortholog of human FGF19). Features Features 7 Gives basic background information on social 7 Combines the introduction of the recent Features forestry’s development 7 Accessible approach to research development of selenoproteins, selenoen- 7 Discusses potential of FGF23 and Klotho as complex issues of forest sustainability 7 Presents zymes and their functional imitation 7 Presents novel diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets examples of social forestry applications in different an interdisciplinary point of view including chem- for chronic kidney disease 7 Gives an over- contexts istry, biology and medical science 7 Introduces view of current knowledge on FGF19 and FGF21 selenoproteins as well as functional functional 7 Comprehensive in scope Contents imitation of selenoproteins 1. Introduction: Basic concepts of social forestry.- Contents 2. People and Forests: The relationship between- Contents The Structural Biology of the FGF19 Subfamily.- society and natural resources.- 3. Communities in Part 1 Selenoproteins: Glutathione Peroxi- Klotho and bKlotho.- FGF23 and Syndromes of Tropical Forests: Examples of cultures and societies dases.- Thyroid Hormone Deiodinases.- Abnormal Renal Phosphate Handling.- Evidence that depend on the forests for their livelihood and Thioredoxin Reductase.- Selenophosphate For FGF23 Involvement in a Bone‑Kidney Axis sustenance.- 4. Participation: The methodology Synthetase.- Selenoprotein P.- Selenoprotein Regulating Bone Mineralization and Systemic of social forestry.- 5. Tailoring forest management T.- Selenoprotein W.- Selenoprotein Biosyn- Phosphate and Vitamin D Homeostasis.- FGF23, to fit local needs. 5.1 Nutrition, food security thesis.- Bioinformatics of Selenoproteins.-Sele- Klotho and Vitamin D Interactions: What Have and livelihood needs. 5.2 Gender, class, religion, noproteins and Atherosclerosis.- Selenoproteins We Learned from In Vivo Mouse Genetics age, cultural traditions and other ”unchangeable” and Brain Diseases.-Selenoproteins Thyroid Studies?.- FGF23 and the Parathyroid.- Regula- factors that affect the use of the resource. 5.3 Land Cancer.- Selenoproteinsand Selenium Speciation tion of Ion Channels by Secreted Klotho.- FGF23 tenure and resource constraints. 5.4 Cooperatives in Food.- Part 2. Selenoprotein Mimics: Synthetic in Chronic Kidney Disease.- Secreted Klotho and other community organizations.- 6. Effects of Mimics of Selenoproteins.- Cycledextrin-based and Chronic Kidney Disease.- FGF23 as a Novel External Organizations on the Community’s Prac- Mimics of Selenoproteins.- Semisynthsized Therapeutic Target.- Physiology of FGF15/19.- tice of social forestry.- 7. Alternative Strategies: Selenoproteins.- Selenium-containing Catalytic FGF19 and Cancer.- Understanding the Struc- Adapting to new, unplanned circumstances.- 8. A Antibodies.- Biosynthetic Mimics of Sele- ture‑Function Relationship Between FGF19 and its social forestry approach in Europe.- 9. Concluding noproteins.- Nanoenzymes as Selenoprotein Mitogenic and Metabolic Activities.- FGF21 as a Remarks. Mimics.- Selenoprotein Mimics and Diseases. Therapeutic Reagent. Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Forestry Management; Forestry; Social Sciences, Protein Science; Medical Biochemistry; Medicinal Cell Biology; Gene Expression general Chemistry
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C. Lütz, Institut für Botanik, Innsbruck, Austria (Ed.) R. R. Mitry, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; J. A. Parrotta, U.S. Forest Service, Arlington, VA, USA; R. D. Hughes, King’s College, London, UK (Eds.) R. L. Trosper, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, Plants in Alpine Regions USA (Eds.) Human Cell Culture Protocols Cell Physiology of Adaption and Survival Traditional Forest-Related Strategies Contents Knowledge Features Introduction to Cell Culture.- Isolation and Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and 7 This is the first book to cover the aspect of Cultivation of Dermal Stem Cells that Differentiate Biocultural Diversity cell physiology in alpine plants; 7 Thematically into Functional Epidermal Melanocytes.- Isola- related to plant behaviour in a changing environ- tion, Cultivation, and Application of Human Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, ment, this book joins different fields of Alveolar Epithelial Cells.- Culture of Parathyroid this volume examines the history, current status research, which results in a comprehensive view of Cells.- Functional Analysis of Human Islets of and likely future trends in the development and molecular and cellular stress adaptation and stress Langerhans Maintained in Culture.- Conversion of application of traditional forest knowledge by local avoidance under the aggravated conditions Non-Endocrine Human Pancreatic Cells to Insulin and indigenous communities worldwide. in high mountain Producing Cells for Treatment of Diabetes.- Evalu- ation of Cytochrome P450 Activities in Human Features Contents Hepatocytes In Vitro.- Human Hepatocytes: 7 Provides an up-to-date summary of the Preface.- 1 Rain and snow at high elevation: The Isolation, Culture, and Quality Procedures.- emerging field of traditional forest management interaction of water, energy and trace substances.- Preclinical Testing of Virotherapeutics for Primary 7 Includes global coverage of traditional forest 2 Solar radiation of the High Alps.- 3 Bioclimatic and Secondary Tumors of the Liver.- Isolation management 7 Offers a highly relevant interdis- temperatures in the High Alps.- 4 Physiological and Functional Studies of Human Fetal Gastric ciplinary approach to tackling current issues in and ultrastructural changes in alpine plants Epithelium in Primary Culture.- Isolation, natural resource management and policy exposed to high UV and to high ozone.- 5 Cell Characterization, and Culture of Normal Human organelle structures and functions in alpine and Intestinal Crypt and Villus Cells.- Primary Culture Contents polar plants are influenced by growth conditions of Human Renal Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells Dedication.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. and climate.- 6 Dynamic of tissue heat tolerance and Interstitial Fibroblasts.- Glomerular Epithelial Introduction: The Growing Importance of Tradi- and thermotolerance of PS II in alpine plants.- 7 and Mesangial Cell Culture and Characteriza- tional Forest-Related Knowledge.- 2. Africa.- 3. Photosynthesis and antioxidant protection in tion.- Isolation and Culture of Human Adipocytes Latin America—Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.- 4. alpine herbs.- 8 Specificities of metabolite profiles and Adipose Tissue.- Primary Culture of Human Amazonia.- 5. North America.- 6. Europe.- 7. in alpine plants.- 9 Interaction of Carbon and Adipocyte Precursor Cells: Expansion and Differ- Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.- Nitrogen metabolisms in alpine plants.- 10 From entiation.- Primary Culture of Ovarian Cells for 8. Northeast Asia.- 9. South Asia.- 10. Southeast the flower bud to the mature seed: timing and Research on Cell Interactions in the Hormonal Asia.- 11. Western Pacific.- 12. Globalisation, dynamics of flower and seed development in Control of Steroidogenesis.- Human Vascular Local Communities, and Traditional Forest- high-mountain plants.- 11 Plant water relations in Smooth Muscle Cell Culture.- Culture of Human Related Knowledge.- 13. Traditional Forest-Related alpine winter.- 12 Ice formation and propagation Endothelial Cells from Umbilical Veins.- Human Knowledge and Climate Change.- 14. Ethics and in alpine plants.- 13 Cell structure and physiology Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Culture Research Methodologies for the Study of Tradi- of alpine snow and ice algae.- 14 Psychrophilic for Flowcytometric Analysis of Phosphorylated tional Forest-Related Knowledge.- 15. The Unique microorganisms in alpine soils. Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases.- Human Character of Traditional Forest-Related Knowl- CD4+CD25highCD127low/neg Regulatory T edge: Threats and Challenges Ahead.- Subject Fields of interest Cells.- Human Chondrocyte Cultures as Models of Index.- Author Index. Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Plant Ecology Cartilage-Specific Gene Regulation.- Isolation and Culture of Human Osteoblasts.... 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L. Pollegioni, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; R. Renneberg, Hong Kong University, Kowloon, N. Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Bizkaia, S. Servi, Polytecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy (Eds.) China Spain; M. Hackenberg, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; A. M. Aransay, CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Unnatural Amino Acids Bioanalytics for Beginners Bizkaia, Spain (Eds.) Methods and Protocols Modeled in its aims and graphic presentation on Bioinformatics for High the supremely successful manual Biotechnology Contents for Beginners, this book is angled at students Throughput Sequencing Preparation of Unnatural Amino Acids with and higher-education instructors of medicine, Ammonia-lyases and 2,3-aminomutases.- Multi- biotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry and the Next generation sequencing is revolutionizing step Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions for Unnatural ecological sciences; medical technologists; lab molecular biology. Owing to this new technology Amino Acids.- Enzymatic Production of Enan- technicians; biology and chemistry teachers; and it is now possible to carry out a panoply of experi- tiopure Amino Acids from Mono-substituted readers of Scientific American looking for a readily ments at an unprecedented low cost and high Hydantoin Substrates.- Preparation of Glutamate understandable introduction to biological analysis speed. Analogues by Enzymatic Transamination.- methods and their applications. Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Enzymes for the Features Synthesis of Non-natural Amino Acids.- Engi- Features 7 This book looks at all aspects of next genera- neering Cyclic Amidases for Non-natural Amino 7 Small photos and graphics in the margins (as tion sequencing data analysis, and focuses on the Acid Synthesis.- NMR Analysis of Unnatural in an encyclopedia) 7 Separate frames contain practical issues 7 Guidelines are given for the Amino Acids in Natural Antibiotics.- Site-specific analytic, biochemical, and technical details (also analysis of the data obtained from each experiment Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids as as in an encyclopedia) 7 The frames on "history 7 A close look at a rapidly expanding type of Probes for Protein Conformational Changes.- of bioanalysis" provide background information facility that will soon be available in almost every Application of Unnatural Amino Acids to the De 7 Illustrations (panorama plates) supply graphic laboratory worldwide novo Design of Selective Antibiotic Peptides.- Use presentations of bioanalytic processes 7 Refer- of Unnatural Amino Acids to Probe Structure- ences and internet: alongside "conventional" refer- Contents activity Relationships and Mode-of-action of ences, each chapter provides additional internet Preface.- Introduction.- Overview of Sequencing Antimicrobial Peptides.- Experimental Methods material, including animations, 3D structures, Technology Platforms.- Applications of High for Scanning Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis.- latest research findings, and cartoons Throughput Sequencing.- Computational Genetic Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids Infrastructure and Basic Data Analysis for into Proteins in Yeast.- Site-specific Incorpora- Contents High-Throughput Sequencing.- Base-Calling tion of Unnatural Amino Acids into Proteins in The Nanoru - The incredible story of its isolation, for Bioinformaticians.- De Novo Short Read Mammalian Cells.- Incorporation of Unnatural purification, and characterization.- Biomolecules Assembly.- Short Read Mapping.- DNA-Protein Non-a-amino Acids into the N-terminus of in tests - Instrumental Bioanalytics.- Bioca- Interaction Analysis (ChIP-Seq).- Genome-wide Proteins in a Cell-free Translation System.- talysis - enzymes and enzyme tests.- Bio-affinity Methylation Maps.- Differential Expression for Site Specific Modification of Proteins by the I: antibodies and immune tests 75.- Bio-affinity RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) Data: Mapping, Staudinger-phosphite Reaction.- HPLC Methods II: biological receptors - nature as unsurpassed Summarization, Statistical Analysis and Experi- for Determination of D-aspartate and N-methyl- Bioanalysis lab worker.- DNA, RNA, and their mental Design.- MicroRNA Expression Profiling D-aspartate.- Estimation of Chronological Age amplification.- Biosensors.- Pharmaceuticals on and Discovery.- Dissecting Splicing-Regulatory from the Racemization Rate of L- and D-aspartic the bench.- INSERT: BIOANALYSIS - an indepen- Network by Integrative Analysis of HITS-CLIP Acid: How to Completely Separate Enantiomers dent science: a timetable on the first and last book data.- Analysis of Metagenomics Data.- High from Dentin.- Enzymatic Detection of D-amino pages.- Glossary.- Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis Software: Acids.... Current State and Future Developments.- Index. Fields of interest Fields of interest Biochemistry, general; Biotechnology; Biophysics Fields of interest Biochemistry, general; Enzymology and Biological Physics Bioinformatics; Human Genetics; Biomedicine general Target groups Target groups Professional/practitioner Upper undergraduate Target groups Research Type of publication Type of publication Contributed volume Graduate/Advanced undergraduate textbook Type of publication Contributed volume
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Y. Sadovy de Mitcheson, University of Hong Kong, A. Sigel, H. Sigel, University of Basel, Switzerland; B. Slippers, University of Pretoria, South Africa; China; P. L. Colin, Coral Reef Research Foundation, R. K. Sigel, University of Zürich, Switzerland (Eds.) P. de Groot, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Koror, USA (Eds.) Marie, ON, Canada; M. J. Wingfield, University of Interplay between Metal Ions Pretoria, South Africa (Eds.) Reef Fish Spawning and Nucleic Acids Aggregations: Biology, The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal Symbiont: Research and Management Features 7 Provides an up-to-date information on nucleic Research and Management of a Worldwide acid-metal ion interactions 7 Indicates future Invasive Pest Contents developments (nanotechnology) involving DNA Preface.- Chapter 1 – Revisiting Spawning Aggre- and RNA 7 Valuable for teaching courses Contents gations: Definitions and Challenges.-Chapter in Inorganic Biochemistry 7 Describes the Preface.- Dedication.- 1. Sirex systematics; prob- 2 - Ecosystem aspects of species that aggregate to analytical tools needed in nucleic acid chem- lems and solutions.- 2. Life history and biology spawn.-Chapter 3 - Why spawn in aggregations?.- istry 7 Describes comprehensively DNAzymes of Sirex noctilio.- 3. Susceptibility and response Chapter 4 – Spawning Aggregations is Reef Fishes; 7 Describes the technology of DNA of pines to Sirex noctilio.- 4. The population Ecological and Evolutionary Processes.- Chapter dynamics of Sirex noctilio F.: the influence of 5 - Timing and location of Aggregation and Contents diapause, spatial aggregation and flight poten- spawning in reef fishes.- Chapter 6 - oceanography 1. Characterization of Metal Ion-Nucleic Acid tial on woodwasp outbreaks and spread.- 5. The of the planktonic stages of Aggregation Spawning Interactions in Solution. - 2. Nucleic Acid-Metal woodwasp Sirex noctilio and its associated fungus Reef fishes.- Chapter 7 - Aggregation Spawning: Ion Interactions in the Solid State. - 3. Metal Ion- Amylostereum areolatum in Europe.- 6. The Biological Aspects of the Early Life History.- Promoted Conformational Changes of Oligonucle- genetics of Amylostereum species associated with Chapter 8 - Fishery and biological implications otides. - 4. G-Quadruplexes and Metal Ions. - 5. Siricids.- 7. Siricid woodwasps and their fungal of fishing spawning aggregations, and the social Metal Ion-Mediated DNA-Protein Interactions. symbionts in Asia, specifically those occurring and economic importance of aggregating fishes.- - 6. Spectroscopic Investigations of Lanthanide in Japan.- 8. Parasitoids in the management of Chapter 9 – Studying and Monitoring Aggregating Ion Binding to Nucleic Acids. - 7. Oxidative Sirex: Looking back and looking ahead.- 9. Factors Species.- Chapter 10 - The role of local ecological DNA Damage Mediated by Transition Metal Ions affecting the efficacy of Deladenus siricidicola knowledge in the conservation and management and Their Complexes. - 8. Metal Ion-Dependent in biological control systems.- 10. Ecological of reef fish spawning aggregations.- Chapter 11 - DNAzymes and Their Applications as Biosensors. considerations in using Deladenus siricidicola for Management of Spawning Aggregations.- Chapter - 9. Enantioselective Catalysis at the DNA Scaffold. the biological control of Sirex noctilio in North 12 - Species case studies.- Chapter 13 - Conclu- - 10. Alternative DNA Base Pairing through Metal America.- 11. The chemical ecology of Sirex sion.- Glossary.- Abbreviations.- Index. Coordination. - 11. Metal-Mediated Base Pairs noctilio.- 12. The use of kairomone lures for the in Nucleic Acids with Purine- and Pyrimidine- detection of Sirex noctilio in susceptible Pinus Derived Nucleosides. - 12. Metal Complex Deriva- Fields of interest radiata plantations in Australia.- 13. The Sirex Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Marine tives of Peptide Nucleic Acids. woodwasp in New Zealand: History and current & Freshwater Sciences; Conservation Biology/ status.- 14. Sirex woodwasp in Australia: current Ecology Fields of interest management strategies, research and emerging Nucleic Acid Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; issues.- 15. The ecology and biological control of Inorganic Chemistry Target groups the woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in Patagonia, Argen- Research tina.- 16. The woodwasp Sirex noctilio in Brazil: Target groups monitoring and control. Type of publication Research Contributed volume Fields of interest Type of publication Forestry; Forestry Management; Entomology Contributed volume Target groups Research
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C. E. Steinberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, A. Vancura, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, USA R. Wickneswari, National University of Malaysia, Germany (Ed.) Bangi, Malaysia; C. Cannon, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Menglun, China (Eds.) Stress Ecology Transcriptional Regulation Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Methods and Protocols Managing the Future of Force and Key Player in Evolution Southeast Asia’s Valuable Contents Tropical Rainforests Features Genome Wide In Vivo Crosslinking of Sequence A Practitioner’s Guide to Forest Genetics 7 First comprehensive synopsis on the ecological Specific Transcription Factors.- Characterization and evolutionary effects of stress 7 Establishes of Complex Regulatory Networks and Identifica- This book provides current knowledge about stresses as essential ecological driving forces and tion of Promoter Regulatory Elements in Yeast: “In tropical rain forest genetics and its implications evolutionary triggers 7 First comprehensive Silico” and “Wet-Lab” Approaches.- Electropho- for the profitable and sustainable management of synopsis on stress response pathways in microor- retic Mobility Shift Assay Analysis of NFkB Tran- forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter ganisms, plants, animals, and ecosystems scriptional Regulation by Nuclear IkBa.- Probing covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology Endogenous RNA Polymerase II Pre-Initiation of tropical rain forest trees and how management Contents Complexes by Electrophoretic Mobility Shift systems interact with these natural dynamics. Why a small worm is not crazy (Introduction).- Assay.- Elucidating Protein: DNA Complex by Authors provide an up-to-date and insightful Activation of oxygen: Multipurpose tool.-Defense Oligonucleotide DNA Affinity Purification.- Chro- review of important scientific findings and means against pathogens and parasites: Reac- matin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Assay as Tool conclude with practical recommendations for the tive oxygen species.- Arms race between plants for Analyzing Transcription Factor Activity.- Two- modern forester in Southeast Asia. and animals: Biotransformation system.- Heat Step Crosslinking for Analysis of Protein-Chro- shock proteins: The minimal, but universal, stress matin Interactions.- Chromatin Immunoprecipita- Features proteome.- Heavy metals: Defense and ecological tion Analysis of NFkB Transcriptional Regulation 7 First review of Southeast Asian forest genetics utilization.- The potential of stress response: by Nuclear IkBa in Human Macrophages.- In Vivo and evolutionary biology 7 Will bridge the Ecological transcriptomics.- Not all is in the ChIP for the Analysis of Microdissected Tissue knowledge gap between academic publications genes: microRNAs, transgenerational effects, Samples.- Quantification of Protein-DNA Interac- and forest practitioners 7 Excellent reference and epigenetics.- The actual response: Ecological tions by In Vivo Chromatin Immunoprecipitation book for evaluators of Forest Stewardship Council proteomics and metabolomics.- Whatever doesn’t in Yeast.- Mapping Protein-DNA Interactions certification 7 Overview of conservation and kill you might make you stronger: Hormesis.- Using ChIP-Sequencing.- ChIP and ReChIP management issues in tropical forestry Multiple stressors as environmental realism: Syner- Assays: Investigating Interactions Between Regu- gism or antagonism.- One stressor prepares for latory Proteins, Histone Modifications, and the Contents the next one to come: Cross-tolerance.-Longevity: DNA Sequences to which They Bind.- Transcrip- Introduction.- Forest management systems Risky shift in population structure?.- Footprints tional Regulation of Genes Via Hypoxia-Inducible in Southeast Asia.- Biogeographic history of of stress in communities.-Environmental stresses: Factor.- Exchange Protein Directly Activated By Southeast Asian forests.- Long-term dynamics of Ecological driving forces and key player in Cyclic AMP 1 (Epac1)-Regulated Recruitment of forest history and phenotypic evolution.- Gene evolution.-References.-Appendices,-Abbreviations CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Proteins (C/EBPs) to flow and inheritance in natural populations of and Glossary,-Index. the Suppressor of Cytokine Signalling-3 (SOCS-3) trees.- Threats to genetic viability of Southeast Promoter.- Computational Analysis of Promoter Asian forest species.- The importance of wildlife Fields of interest Elements and Chromatin Features in Yeast.- Chro- for forests.- Synthesis and options for sustainable Ecology; Animal Ecology; Freshwater & Marine matin Affinity Purification (ChAP).... management.- Ecology Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Biochemistry, general; Gene Expression Forestry Management; Plant Genetics & Research Genomics; Tree Biology Target groups Type of publication Professional/practitioner Target groups Monograph Research Type of publication Contributed volume Type of publication Monograph
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E. D. Zanders, BioVillage Ltd., Cambridge, UK (Ed.) R. L. Zimdahl, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Chemical Genomics and Proteomics Weed Science – A Plea for Reviews and Protocols Thought – Revisited
Features Weed scientists are confident of increasing produc- 7 Focuses on the foremost, current technolo- tion through agricultural technology, including gies being used in the fields of chemical genomics herbicides, but do not must ask if the moral and proteomics 7 Includes clear and concise obligation to feed people is sufficient justification laboratory protocols, ready for use 7 Features for the benefits and harms achieved. A continuing, expert tips and implementation advice to ensure rigorous examination of the science’s goals that successful results leads to appropriate change is advocated. Weed scientists have a research consensus - a paradigm Contents - Weeds must be controlled. Herbicides are the Overview of Chemical Genomics and Proteomics.- best control technology. Agriculture’s practitoners Exploring Chemical Space: Recent Advances in should discuss the necessity and risks of their Chemistry.- In Silico Design of Small Molecules.- technology. Discussion must include scientific Surface Plasmon Resonance for Proteomics.- evidence and value-laden arguments. Biomimetic Affinity Ligands for Immunoglobulins Based on the Multicomponent Ugi Reac- Field of interest tion.- Preparation of Photo-Cross-Linked Small Agriculture Molecule Affinity Matrices for Affinity Selection of Protein Targets for Biologically Active Small Target groups Molecules.- Profiling Cellular Myristoylation Graduate and Palmitoylation Using ω-Alkynyl Fatty Acids.- Fluorescence Labels in Kinases (FLiK): A Type of publication High-Throughput Kinase Binding Assay for the Monograph Identification of DFG-Out Binding Ligands.- Elec- trochemical Aptamer Sensor for Small Molecule Assays.- Miniaturized, Microarray-Based Assays for Chemical Proteomic Studies of Protein Func- tion.- Glycan Microarrays.- Resolving Bottlenecks for Recombinant Protein Expression in E. coli.- Recombinant Protein Expression in the Baculo- virus-Infected Insect Cell System.- Systems for the Cell-Free Synthesis of Proteins.- Protein Identifica- tion by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry.
Fields of interest Biochemistry, general; Proteomics; Gene Function
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