The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

The Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolases (PAFAH) (The Enzymes): Volume 38

The Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolases (PAFAH) (The Enzymes): Volume 38

by Fuyuhiko Tamanoi (Editor), Fuyuhiko Tamanoi (Editor), Diana Stafforini (Editor), Keizo Inoue (Editor)

  • New

    Hardcover 2015

    $121.75
Synopsis

This volume of The Enzymes summarizes the most important discoveries associated with a group of enzymes that play an important role in normal biological processes as presented and discussed by leaders authorities in the field.

$121.75

Save:$16.44 (12%)

Quantity

20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 222
 Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 01 Dec 2015
ISBN 10: 0128039086
ISBN 13: 9780128039083
Book Overview: This volume of The Enzymes summarizes the most important discoveries associated with a group of enzymes that play an important role in normal biological processes

Author Bio
Fuyu Tamanoi is a biochemist who has served on the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA College faculty since he joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics in 1993. He became a full professor in 1997. Since 1996, he has been a Director of Signal Transduction Program Area at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Tamanoi earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Tokyo. He received PhD in Molecular Biology at Nagoya University in 1977. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he worked on bacteriophage DNA replication. From 1980 to 1985, he was a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he worked on adenovirus DNA replication. From 1985 to 1993, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he initiated studies on lipid modification of the Ras family proteins. His laboratory research centers on signal transduction and signal transduction inhibitors. He is currently exploring ways to deliver signal transduction inhibitors using nanoparticles. Dr. Diana Stafforini works at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Professor Inoue works at the Teikyo University, School of Pharmacy, Japan.