| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
History / Franca Buffoni -- Nomenclature and potential functions of copper amine oxidases / Sinéad Boyce [and others] -- Cofactors of amine oxidases : copper ion and its substitution and the 2,4,5-trihydroxylphenylalanine quinone / Shinnichiro Suzuki [and others] -- Copper amine oxidases from plants / Rosaria Medda [and others] -- Soluble copper amine oxidases from mammals / Paola Pietrangeli [and others] -- Membrane-bound copper amine oxidases / Andrew Holt -- Copper amine oxidase genes / Ivo Frébort and Hubert G. Schwelberger -- Mechanism of TPQ biogenesis in prokaryotic copper amine oxidase / Toshihide Okajima and Katsuyuki Tanizawa -- Copper amine oxidase crystal structures / J. Mitchell Guss, Giuseppe Zanotti, and Tiina A. Salminen -- Plasma amine oxidases in various clinical conditions and in apoptosis / Frans Boomsma, Anton H. van den Meiracker, and Antonio Toninello -- Copper amine oxidases in intestinal diseases / Wieslawa Agnieszka Fogel, Ewa Toporowska-Kowalska, and Anna Stasiak -- Copper amine oxidases in adipose tissue-related disorders / Christian Carpéné -- Copper amine oxidases in adhesion molecules in renal pathology and in Alzheimer's disease and VAP-1 in leukocyte migration / Peter Boor [and others] -- Inhibitors of copper amine oxidases : past, present, and future / Marek Šebela and Lawrence M. Sayre -- Pharmacological applications of copper amine oxidases / Emanuela Masini and Laura Raimondi -- Copper amine oxidases as antioxidant and cardioprotective agents / Mircea Alexandru Mateescu and Réginald Nadeau -- Biotechnological aspects of copper amine oxidases / Roberto Stevanato -- Concluding remarks / David M. Dooley |
| Summary |
Describes the structure of the enzymes, the role of copper and the unusual cofactor 6-hydroxydopa quinine derived from a posttranslational modification of a tyrosine residue. This work also covers the differences in amine oxidases from bacteria, plants and mammals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Amine oxidase.
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Copper enzymes.
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Amine Oxidase (Copper-Containing) -- metabolism
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Amine Oxidase (Copper-Containing) -- pharmacology
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
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Amine oxidase.
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Copper enzymes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Floris, Giovanni, 1945-
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Mondovì, Bruno.
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| ISBN |
9781420076813 |
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1420076817 |
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9780429139291 |
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0429139292 |
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