Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences: Where Chemistry Meets Life

Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences gives an account of the most recent results of research in life sciences in Europe based on a selection of leading young scientists participating in the 2008 European Young Chemists Award competition. In addition to this, the authors provide the state of the art of their field of research and the perspective or preview of future directions.

Spis treści:
BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES
The Role of Metal Ions and the Ubiquitin–Proteasome System in Neurodegenerative Diseases
The Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry of Copper(III)
Chemical Protein Modification
DRUG DELIVERY
Vitamin B12. A Potential Targeting Molecule for Therapeutic Drug Delivery
Strategies for Microsphere Mediated Celluar Delivery
RESEARCH IN THERAPEUTICS
Fundamental Processes in Radiation Damage to DNA: How Low–Energy Electrons May Damage Biomolecules
Structure–Based Design on the Way to New Anti–Infectives
Drug–Membrane Interactions: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Therapeutic and Toxic Effects of Drugs
Targeting Disease with Small Molecule Inhibitors of Protein–Protein Interactions
Cracking the Glycode: Recent Developments in Glycomics
ENZYME CHEMISTRY
O2 Reactivity at Model Copper Systems: Mimicking Tyrosinase Reactivity
STRUCTURE–PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP AND BIOSENSING
Chirality in Biochemistry: A Computational Approach for Investigating Biomolecule Conformations
Collisional Mechanism Based E–DNA Sensors: A General Platform for Label–Free Electrochemical Detection of Hybridization and DNA Binding Proteins

Nota biograficzna:
Bruno Pignataro, born in Bologna in 1972, is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Palermo. He received his degree in chemistry in 1995 from the University of Catania and his PhD in materials science five years later. He has helped establish a wide network of international collabor ations and organized more than 10 meetings at national and international level, including coordinating the Young Chemists Group of the Italian Chemical Society and chairing the first editions of the European Young Chemist Award. He is a referee for several leading chemistry and materials journals, has more than 70 scientific publications and some 90 conference communications to his name, along with several invited lectures. Professor Pignataro′s research interests focus on the related fields of the physical chemistry of molecular surfaces and soft nanotechnologies.