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- Editors:
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Vincenzo Zappia
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Institute of Biochemistry of Macromolecules, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Anthony E. Pegg
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The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, USA
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Table of contents (67 chapters)
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Post-Synthetic Modifications of Proteins Involving Polyamines
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- R. Porta, C. Esposito, S. Metafora, A. Malorni, P. Pucci, G. Marino
Pages 403-409
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- Simone Beninati, J. E. Folk
Pages 411-422
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- M. H. Park, E. C. Wolff, A. Abbruzzese, J. E. Folk
Pages 435-447
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- Roberta J. Murphey, Margaret E. Tome, Eugene W. Gerner
Pages 449-458
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- A. Abbruzzese, V. Liguori, M. H. Park
Pages 459-466
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Interactions of Polyamines with Macromolecules
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Front Matter
Pages 467-467
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- Maria Stella Moruzzi, Giorgio Piccinini, Bruna Tadolini, Maria Giuseppina Monti, Bruno Barbiroli, Gabriele Mezzetti
Pages 469-480
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- Bruna Tadolini, Gabriele Hakim
Pages 481-490
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- A. Toninello, D. Siliprandi, P. Castagnini, M. C. Novello, N. Siliprandi
Pages 491-496
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- José Hernández-Yago, Carmen González-Bosch, Vicente J. Miralles, María-Jesús Marcote, Santiago Grisolía
Pages 497-508
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- Luisa Fasulo, Barbara Fulgosi, Sebastiano Colombatto, Maria Angelica Grillo
Pages 509-516
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- Burt G. Feuerstein, Hirak S. Basu, Laurence J. Marton
Pages 517-523
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- Željko Kućan, Tatjana Naranda, Miroslav Plohl, Vesna Nöthig-Laslo, Ivana Weygand-Durašević
Pages 525-533
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- Carlo Clo, Benedetta Tantini, Pietro Sacchi, Claudio M. Caldarera
Pages 535-543
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Polyamines in Plants
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Front Matter
Pages 545-545
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- Nello Bagni, Rossella Pistocchi
Pages 547-558
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- Arie Altman, Nitsa Levin, Pnina Cohen, Madlyn Schneider, Barry Nadel
Pages 559-572
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- Terence A. Smith, Jacqueline H. A. Barker
Pages 573-587
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- Arthur W. Galston, Leonard H. Weinstein
Pages 589-599
About this book
This book contains the scientific contributions presented at an International Symposium held in Sorrento, Italy, in June 1988 under the auspices of the University of Naples, the Italian Society of Biochemistry, and the National Research Council. The modern history of polyamines dates back to 1958 when the Tabors and Rosenthal first described the outlines of their biological synthesis. From then on, and particularly in the last ten years, a veri table explosion of Literature, characterized by thousands of papers, has witnessed the interest of the scientific community toward these molecules. Perhaps the old statement that "polyamines are molecules in search of a function" is no longer true today. A large number of effects exerted by these simple molecules are well known, and in many cases the mechanisms underlying these effects have been elucidated. The first section of the volume is entirely devoted to the enzymology and molecular biology of ornithine decarboxylase. Since its discovery by Gale more than forty years ago, this can be considered among the most widely studied enzymes in biology, and one of the most complex models in enzyme regulation. The mechanism of control of the enzyme activity at the transcriptional, post-transcriptional and post-translational levels, as well as the fine regulation by antizyme, are discussed in detail. The second group of contributions deals wi th AdoMet decarboxylase, propylamine transferase, polyamine oxidase and the other enzymes related to polyamine interconversion and regeneration.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Biochemistry of Macromolecules, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Vincenzo Zappia
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The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, USA
Anthony E. Pegg