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Vol. 1: NATURAL PRODUCTS STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY-I SECONDARY METABOLITES: ORGANIZATION AND BIOSYNTHESIS
Edited by Craig Townsend and Yutaka Ebizuka
natural product classes, including polyketides, terpenoids, steroids, alkaloids, and fatty acids; biosynthetic pathways and enzymology
Excerpt: Modular PKS

Vol. 2: NATURAL PRODUCTS STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY-II SECONDARY METABOLITES: SOURCES, STRUCTURES AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Edited by Bradley S. Moore and Phillip Crews
terrestrial and marine sources, including plants, fungi, insects, algae, sponges, and prokaryote sources of bacteria
Excerpt: Insects

Vol. 3: DEVELOPMENT AND MODIFICATION OF BIOACTIVITY
Edited by Rob Verpoorte
traditional uses (as in Chinese medicine) and chemistry of natural products (coffee, tea); metabolic engineering
Excerpt: Cannabis Excerpt: Trees Excerpt: Coffee

Vol. 4: CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Edited by Kenji Mori
plant and insect hormones; pheromones of birds, marine invertebrates, and algae; chemical defense and toxins; human-environment interactions
Excerpt: Vertebrates

Vol. 5: AMINO ACIDS, PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS
Edited by John C. Vederas
novel enzymes for the biotransformation and resolution of amino acids; therapeutic value of peptides from animal venoms; advances in protein engineering by synthesis and ligation
Excerpt: Lantibiotics Excerpt: Plant Toxins

Vol. 6: CARBOHYDRATES, NUCLEOSIDES AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
Edited by Chi-huey Wong and Peng George Wang
enzymatic synthesis of complex carbohydrates; new strategies for glycopeptide, neoglycopeptide, and glycoprotein synthesis; biochemistry and molecular biology of glycogen synthesis in bacteria and mammals
Excerpt: Antigens

Vol. 7: COFACTORS
Edited by Tadhg Begley
vitamins and enzymatic co-factors, including riboflavin biosynthesis, genomics, and enzymology of NAD biosynthesis; pyridoxal phosphate biosynthesis; cofactor catabolism
Excerpt: Enzymes Excerpt: Vitamins

Vol. 8: ENZYMES AND ENZYME MECHANISMS
Edited by Christian P. Whitman
enzyme promiscuity—evolutionary and mechanistic aspects, detection of novel enzyme intermediates, quantum chemical modeling of enzymatic reactions
Excerpt: Evolution/Enzymes Excerpt: Fatty Acids

Vol. 9: MODERN METHODS FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Edited by Lewis Mander
spectroscopic-based methods; biologically-oriented techniques; metabolomics; single molecule fluorescence
Excerpt: Crystallography

Vol. 10: INDEX

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