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    Molecular Mechanisms Of Oxygen Activation
    Molecular Mechanisms Of Oxygen Activation
    Molecular Mechanisms Of Oxygen Activation
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    Molecular Mechanisms Of Oxygen Activation

    By Osamu Hayaishi

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    Molecular Mechanisms of Oxygen Activation reviews some of the major advances that have been made in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying oxygen activation, with emphasis on the role of oxygen activation in contemporary biological processes. The biological role of oxygenases in the metabolism of fatty acids and steroids is discussed, along with the functions of heme-containing dioxygenases, a-ketoglutarate-coupled dioxygenases, and pterin-requiring aromatic amino acid hydroxylases. This book is comprised of 14 chapters and begins with an overview of the general properties and biological functions of oxygenases, along with the chemical aspects of oxygen fixation reactions. The reader is then introduced to research concerning fatty acid and steroid oxygenases which has appeared in the literature since 1962, paying particular attention to the mechanism of oxygenation and the biosynthesis and metabolism of steroids. Subsequent chapters explore the biological functions of a variety of oxygenases such as heme-containing dioxygenases, copper-containing oxygenases, flavoprotein oxygenases, and pterin-requiring aromatic amino acid hydroxylases. Superoxide dismutase, cytochrome c oxidase, peroxidase, and bacterial monoxygenases are also considered. This monograph should serve as a valuable reference for biochemists as well as undergraduate and graduate students of biochemistry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateDec 2, 2012
    ISBN9780323143264
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      A very abused book I've had for more than 20 years and 10 moves. Sort of an "answer" to The Female Man by Joanna Russ, it is concerned at a thematic level with separatist feminism (set in a far future and alien races but the general theme is pretty easy to see). It speaks of what each gender might miss by excluding the other from full participation in the society.

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