ISBN10: 3540665730, ISBN13: 9783540665731, [publisher: Berlin Springer Verlag] Hardcover Gebraucht - Sehr gut Zustand: Sehr gut, X, 247 pp.(Also available as online-version). About this book This book is the second of two volumes that deal with discovery of chemical pathways of biosynthesis of natural products (secondary metabolites). Volume 1 covered the use of isotopes in biosynthetic research and the formation of enzyme cofactors and reduced polyketides. This second volume describes biosynthesis of aromatic (unreduced) polyketides, enzymes responsible for cyclization of terpenoids (isoprenoids), and biochemical generation of selected classes of alkaloids (prenylated tryptophan, tropane, pyrrolizidine). Knowledge of the pathways and the techniques to elucidate them opens the door to combinatorial biosynthesis as well as to the production of targeted pharmaceutical agents utilizing a combination of chemistry, molecular biology and protein biochemistry. Written for scientists and practitioners in the mentioned fields at universities and in industry Englisch
[Darmstadt, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]