EJB Reviews

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles. The enterprise proved successful resulting in high-level reviews written by well-known scientists appearing in the Journal. The reviews represent emerging and rapidly growing fields of research in fundamental as well as applied areas of biochemistry, such as medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Novel methodological andtechnological approaches which stimulate biochemical research are also included. The authors of the reviews are explicitly asked to be critical, selective, evaluative and interdisciplinarily oriented. The reviews should encourage young scientists toward independent and creative thinking, and inform active investigators about the state of the art in a given field.

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The mechanism and functions of ATP-dependent proteases in bacterial and animal cells.- Enzyme function in organic solvents.- Protein interaction with ice.- The molecular and genetic analysis of mouse development.- Natural protein proteinase inhibitors and their interaction with proteinases.- On the interpretation of biochemical data by molecular dynamics computer simulation.- Metalloclusters of the nitrogenases.- Nutritional and hormonal regulation of lipogenic-enzyme gene expression in rat liver.- Carbon catabolite repression in yeast.- Small RNA helices as substrates for aminoacylation and their relationship to charging of transfer RNAs.- The structure of DNA junctions and their interactions with enzymes.- Nervous control of liver metabolism and hemodynamics.- The laws of cell energetic.- Concepts and strategies for human gene therapy.- The protein kinase C family.- The cytoskeletal lattice of muscle cells.- Structures and functions of the sugar chains of glycoproteins.- The elusive nuclear matrix.- Bacterial nitrite-reducing enzymes.- Tyrosine phosphorylation and the mechanism of signal transduction by the B-lymphocyte antigen receptor.- The molecular mechanism of erythropoietin action.- Author index for EJB Reviews 1989-1992.