Publisher's Synopsis
This series provides a source of information on research in the areas of biochemistry and molecular biology. Each chapter is written by an expert on a particular area of research, and is a self contained summary of the state-of-the-art of that topic. This volume includes essays on the mechanism of bacterial DD-transpeptidases and penicillinn mode of action, sphingolipid activator proteins, opsin genes, the in vivo roles of molecular chaperones, molecular chaperones: physical and mechanistic properties and molecular pathology of prion diseases.