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Essays in Biochemistry Volume 31
Essays in Biochemistry

Edited by D K Apps
University of Edinburgh, UK

Essays in Biochemistry

This well-established series was successfully re-launched by Portland Press in 1991 with a new format and a new direction, returning Essays to its original concept of a book for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and their teachers.

Essays in Biochemistry provides undergraduates and first year postgraduates with a single source of information on the latest research in rapidly moving areas of biochemistry and molecular biology. Particular attention is given to topics which perhaps because of recent developments are poorly covered by standard texts.

Each chapter is written by an expert on the area of research and is a self-contained summary of the state-of-the-art of that topic.

Essays in Biochemistry is published in a new format which makes extensive use of illustrations, diagrams and tables, which enhances its accessibility. This highly readable volume will also serve as a valuable teaching aid to lecturers in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Contents:

• Assessment of human gene diversity and expression patterns using expressed sequence tags E Kirkness
  
• Towards genome-wide scanning of gene expression: a functional aspects of Genome Project Y Sakaki and T Ito
  
• 11 hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase: tissue-specific dictators of glucocorticoid action R Benediktsson and CRW Edwards
  
• Cell adhesion proteins of the immunoglobulin superfamily in the nervous system K Uyemura et al.
  
• Membrane proteins which exhibit multiple topological orientations D Levy
  
• Bypassing the ribosomal peptide synthesis without translation A Murphy and
  C O'Fagain
  
• Nuclear organizationin plants P Shaw
  
• Arabinogalactan proteins: a family of cell-surface and extracellular matrix plant proteoglycans A Bacic et al.
  
• Hypothesis: the thermosynthesis model for the origin of life and the emergence of regulation by Ca2+ A Muller
  

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