Published December, 2011
By David M. J. Lilley and Fritz Eckstein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology
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Molecular biology is one of the most rapidly growing develo-ping and at thesame time most exciting disciplines. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology keeps scientistsinformed of the explosively growing information and complieswith with the great interest in this field by offering acontinued high standard of review.

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Published October, 2011
By Allen W. Nicholson
Publisher: Springer (Springer Berlin Heidelberg)
Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology
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Ribonucleases, one of the ‘super families’ of enzymes, catalyze the degradation of RNA. This book on the major groups of ribonucleases examines their structures, mechanisms and functions as well as their role in post-transcriptional regulatory pathways.

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Published October, 2011
By David M. J. Lilley, Fritz Eckstein, David M.J. Lilley and Fritz Eckstein Eckstein
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Mechanisms of Transcription presents a unique perspective on the fundamental processes of transcription. Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems, NMR and crystallographic structures of a number of important eukaryotic transcription factors are discussed, as well as the role of chromatin structure.

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Published November, 2010
By Martin Richards, Hans-Jurgen Bandelt and Vincent Macaulay
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Mitochondrial DNA is one of the most closely explored genetic systems, because it can tell us so much about the human past. From molecular biology to anthropology, statistics to ancient DNA, this first volume of three presents a comprehensive global picture and a critical appraisal of human mitochondrial DNA variation.

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Published November, 2010
By Dieter Wildenauer and Dieter B. Wildenauer
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It is generally accepted that neuropsychiatric disorders have a biological basis. For other neuropsychiatric disorders, in particular for schizophrenic and affective disorders, molecular causes appear to be more complex and therefore remain hypothetical, despite decades of research.

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Published November, 2010
By Caroline Koehrer and Uttam L. RajBhandary
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The field of protein engineering has, however, evolved rapidly since then and the last fifteen years have witnessed remarkable advances through the use of new chemical, biochemical and molecular biological tools towards the synthesis and manipulation of proteins.

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Published November, 2010
By Michael Fry and Karen Usdin
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Human neurological and neuromuscular disorders caused by nucleotide expansion are the focus of growing interest of practicing physicians and of interested biomedical researchers. The authors discuss molecular, clinical and pathological aspects of the diseases as well as our current understanding of their underlying mechanisms.

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Published November, 2010
By H. Ulrich Goringer and H. Ulrich Goeringer
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Goringer's brilliant new work dedicates a chapter to each of the main types of RNA editing - the very first volume to do so.

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Published July, 2010
By Yo Kikuchi and Elena Y. Rykova
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Extracellular nucleic acids have recently emerged as important players in the fields of biology and the medical sciences. In addition, extracellular nucleic acids have attracted attention as active modulators of the immune system of higher organisms, including humans.

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Published December, 2009
By John F. Atkins and Raymond F. Gesteland
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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These results showed that the code has been c- served during evolution and strongly suggested that the code appeared very early during biological evolution, that all forms of life on earth descended from a c- mon ancestor, and thus that all forms of life on this planet are related to one another.

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