International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

4th International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry, Biarritz, France, 16 June 1997

Preface
A. Marquet
p. i [full text - pdf 382 kB]

Protein splicing: a novel form of gene expression and paradigm for self-catalzyed protein rearrangements
Henry Paulus
p. 1 [full text - pdf 454 kB]

Coenzyme B₆ dependent novel bond cleavage reactions
Hung-Wen Liu
p. 9 [full text - pdf 349 kB]

Visualising enzyme and ribozyme intermediates using fast diffraction and reaction trapping methods
Barry L. Stoddard, Jill M. Bolduc, David H. Dyer, William G. Scott and Robert M. Sweet
p. 17 [full text - pdf 328 kB]

Structural bases for the catalytic mechanism of NiFe hydrogenase
Y. Montet, E. Garcin, A. Volbeda, C. Hatchikian, M. Frey and J. C. Fontecilla-Camps
p. 25 [full text - pdf 536 kB]

The conformational basis of asparagine-linked glycosylation
Barbara Imperiali and Sarah E. O'Connor
p. 33 [full text - pdf 281 kB]

A structural view of ligand binding to the retinoid receptors
Bruno P. Klaholz and Dino Moras
p. 41 [full text - pdf 471 kB]

Cell regulatory function of glycophingolipids: carbohydrate recognition and biosignaling
Yoshitaka Nagai
p. 49 [full text - pdf 447 kB]

Acylated chitooligomers are molecular signals that mediate the symbiotic interactions between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their host plants
Jean-Claude Promé, Jean Denairé and Georges Truchet
p. 55 [full text - pdf 586 kB]

Plants as a factory to produce molecules
Georges Freyssinet and Terry Thomas
p. 61 [full text - pdf 355 kB]

Proteolytic degradation of hemoglobin in vivo. Role in formation of tissue specific peptide pool
Vadim T. Ivanov, Andrei A. Karelin, Elena Yu. Blischenko, Marina M. Philippova and Igor V. Nazimov
p. 67 [full text - pdf 442 kB]

Modulation of membrane structure and function by hydrophobic mismatch between proteins and lipids
J. Antoinette Killain, Maurits R. R. de Planque, Patrick C. A. van der Wel, Irene Salemink, Ben de Kruijff, Denise V. Greathouse and Roger E. Koeppe II
p. 75 [full text - pdf 511 kB]

Improved gene delivery formulations and expression systems for enhanced transaction efficiency
Marni Brisson and Leaf Huang
p. 83 [full text - pdf 574 kB]

Liposomes: from membrane models to gene therapy
Francis Schuber, Antoine Kichler, Christophe Boeckler and Benoît Frisch
p. 89 [full text - pdf 399 kB]

Lantibiotics and microcins: novel posttranslational modifications of polypeptides
Dietmar Kaiser, Ralph W. Jack and Günther Jung
p. 97 [full text - pdf 500 kB]

Structural and biological properties of peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
Peter E. Nielsen
p. 105 [full text - pdf 466 kB]

Development of artificial ribonucleases
Robert Häner, Jonathan Hall, Angelika Pfützer and Dieter Hüsken
p. 111 [full text - pdf 385 kB]

IUPAC Recommendations on Nomenclature and Symbols and Technical Reports from Commissions

Recommendations or the presentation of NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids (IUPAC Recommendations 1998)
IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB Inter-union Task Group on the Standardization of Data Bases of Protein and Nucleic Acid Structures Determined by NMR Spectroscopy
John L. Markley, Ad Bax, Yoji Arata, C. W. Hilbers, Robert Kaptein, Brian D. Sykes, Peter E. Wright and Kurt Wüthrich
p. 117 [full text - pdf 747 kB]

Nomenclature of fused and bridged fused ring systems (IUPAC Recommendations 1998)
Organic Chemistry Division, Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
G. P. Moss
p. 143 [full text - pdf 747 kB]

Isotopic compositions of the elements 1997 (Technical Report)
Inorganic Chemistry Division, Commission on Atomic Weights and Isotopic Abundances, Subcommittee for Isotopic Abundance Measurements
K. J. R. Rosman and P. D. P. Taylor
p. 217 [full text - pdf 747 kB]

History of the recommended atomic-weight values from 1882 to 1997: A comparison of differences from current values to the estimated uncertainties of earlier values (Technical Report)
Inorganic Chemistry Division, Commission on Atomic Weights and Isotopic Abundances
T. B. Coplen and H. S. Peiser
p. 237 [full text - pdf 747 kB]