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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Advances in Applied Microbiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 122
      • April 19, 2023
      • Geoffrey M. Gadd + 1 more
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      Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 122 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology. Users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topic of microbiology. This release includes updates on BioMateriOME: to understand microbe-material interactions within sustainable, living architectures.

    • Ozone Pollution and Plant Health: Understanding the Impacts and Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 108
      • June 1, 2023
      • English
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      Advances in Botanical Research Volume 108: Ozone Pollution and Plant Health: Understanding the Impacts and Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the harmful effects of tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution on crop productivity, with a focus on how it is measured and modeled under climate change scenarios. The book discusses the sources of O3 pollution, including anthropogenic precursor gases, and how O3 exposure can impair photosynthesis, reduce gas exchange, induce early leaf senescence, and hamper growth in natural vegetation and crops. The book highlights how O3 interacts with plant physiology and metabolism, including through the activation of signal transduction pathways, changes in phytohormone signaling, and modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and signaling. The book also explores the experimental and modeling methods used to assess the effects of O3 on crops, with a focus on studies conducted in Asia. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the implications of ozone pollution for ensuring food security and protecting human and environmental health and suggests strategies such as using ozone-resistant cultivars of plants and crops. Additionally, the book discusses the broader context of air pollution and its impact on crop productivity, including the effects of other air pollutants on plants and crops and the need for mitigation strategies and policies to address agricultural losses. This book is essential reading for early-career researchers, sustainable agriculture practitioners, and policymakers interested in understanding the complex interactions between ozone pollution and plant productivity and finding solutions to mitigate the detrimental effects of ozone pollution on crops in a changing climate.

    • Advances in Applied Microbiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 125
      • October 27, 2023
      • Geoffrey M. Gadd + 1 more
      • English
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      Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 125 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology where users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topics of microbiology.

    • Biochemical Pathways and Environmental Responses in Plants: Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 680
      • January 27, 2023
      • English
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      Biochemical Pathways and Environmental Responses in Plants, Part B, Volume 682 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights advances in the field with this new volume presenting chapters on MIE 681/682: Biochemical pathways and environmental responses in plants, Structure, function, and engineering of plant polyketide synthases, A sensitive LC-MS/MS assay for enzymatic characterization of methylthioalkylmalat... synthase involved in glucosinolate side-chain elongation, Assaying formate-tetrahydrofo... ligase with monoglutamylated and polyglutamylated substrates using a fluorescence-HPLC based assay, An Approach to Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Pigmented Protein Complexes by Using Chemical Crosslinking in Combination with Mass Spectrometry, Biochemical characterization of plant aromatic aminotransferases, and much more. Other chapters focus on Functional Analysis of Phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PMT) in Plants and Parasites, A structure-guided computational screening approach for predicting plant enzyme-metabolite interactions, Plant metacaspase: an example of microcrystal structure determination and analysis, Biocatalytic system for comparative assessment of functional association of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases with their redox partners, Dirigent Protein Family Function and Structure, and more.

    • The Enzymes

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 54
      • November 7, 2023
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      The Enzymes, Volume 54 highlights new advances in enzymes, with new chapters on a variety of topics, including the History of The Enzymes, Impact of The Enzymes in chronicling biochemical processes and pathways, Metabolism and Catalysis, Mitochondrial ATP synthase, The respiratory chain, A century of mitochondrial research, Five decades of metalloenzymology, Mechanisms of catalysis, Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis and associated processes, Signaling, MAPK cascades: Origins, mechanisms and current status, Sphingolipids: From structural components to signaling hubs, Protein Homeostasis and Hydrolysis, Mitochondrial AAA+ proteases, Hsp70 and JDP proteins: structure-function perspective on molecular chaperone activity. Other sections cover DNA Replication and Repair, Structure-function studies of DNA replication proteins, and Helicases required for nucleotide excision repair.

    • Cilia: From Mechanisms to Disease–Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 175
      • March 21, 2023
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      Cilia: From Mechanisms to Disease, Part A, Volume 175 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, offers a range of techniques and protocols that can be used to study aspects of this interesting cellular organelle both in vitro and in vivo. Sections in this new release include Protocols to induce and study ciliogenesis, Flow Cytometry-Based Approach for the study of primary Cilia, Microscopic observation of human airway ciliary movement using wheat germ agglutinin, Time-lapse imaging of primary cilia behavior with physiological expression of fluorescent ciliary proteins, Evaluation of ciliary-GPCR dynamics using a validated organotypic brain slice culture method, and much more. Other sections cover Studying the morphology, composition and function of the photoreceptor primary cilium in zebrafish, Visualizing Multiciliated Cells in the Zebrafish, Isolation of Ciliary Ectosomes and Analysis of Peptide-mediated Chemotaxis in Chlamydomonas, Using Paramecium as a Model for Ciliopathies, Using organoids to study cilia, Using in vivo cerebellar electroporation to study neuronal cell proliferation and differentiation in a Joubert syndrome mouse model, and more.

    • The 50th Anniversary Issue of Fish Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 40A
      • October 31, 2023
      • English
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      The series "Fish Physiology" recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary. In total, the editors of the series have produced a total of 47 books (several volumes have two books) that contain almost 500 chapters since the inaugural volume published in 1969. The content of the "Fish Physiology" volumes has evolved over time. The initial volumes were devoted to understanding the basic mechanisms and principles of fish physiology, with a focus on a few model species and some application to natural environmental conditions. Then, as the field better understood mechanisms, the approach was broadened to not only delve deeper into system physiology (e.g., chapters in early volumes were expanded to become books), but interspecific differences in physiology were explored, permitting a more evolutionary framework. Finally, as interspecific physiological mechanisms were further resolved, it became possible to discuss physiology in light of a changing world. Thus, physiology can now inform on conservation, sustainability and management, as exemplified with the most recent volumes. This anniversary issue celebrates the series by highlighting some of the very important early work in the field that was published in the Series. In particular, we wished to (re)introduce new researchers to this research that has stood the test of time and that shaped the field. Each re-published chapter is preceded by a short review written by experts in the field to provide an overview/introductio... of each selected chapter, discuss what is particularly noteworthy or important in the particular chapter, and discuss why in their opinion this chapter has become a classic in its own right and how it has inspired the field of fish physiology today?

    • Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer - Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 380
      • August 31, 2023
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      Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer - Part A, Volume 380 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series, presents content from various experts in epigenetics who cover multiple facets of cancer-associated epigenetic alterations, including the impact of epigenetic deregulation in all steps of oncogenesis as well as promising strategies to therapeutically target cancer-associated epigenetic deregulation. Specific chapters cover Epigenetic regulation of epithelial-mesenchym... transition during cancer development, Novel insights into DNA methylation-based epigenetic regulation of breast tumor angiogenesis, Super-enhancer landscape rewiring in cancer: The epigenetic control at distal sites, Non-coding RNAs in the epigenetic landscape of Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and much more.

    • Integrated Methods in Protein Biochemistry: Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 679
      • January 18, 2023
      • English
      Integrated Methods in Protein Biochemistry: Part B, Volume 678 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Precise modification of native proteins, purification, and analysis of bioconjugates, NanoBiT-based methods to monitor the activation and modulation of RTKs, The interplay of G-protein βγ subunit and PLC-β enzyme in PIP2 hydrolysis and downstream signaling, Structure and function of bacterial secretion system, Tools and protocols for probing protein sumoylation, Spectroscopic analysis of cysteine dioxygenase: a mammalian thiol-dioxygenase, DeGlyPHER: MS-based analysis of viral spike N-glycoforms, and more. Additional sections cover Covalent protein painting: MS-based protein footprinting, Characterization of GPCR signaling complexes using negative-staining electron microscopy, Probing protein misfolding and dissociation with free electron laser, Optimized protocol for the characterization of Cas12a activities, Proximity proteomics for the identification and characterization of extracellular vesicles, Structural and Functional characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases, and much more.

    • The Immunological Synapse - Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 178
      • July 11, 2023
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      The Immunological Synapse - Part B, Volume 178 in the Methods in Cell Biology series provides state-of-the-art methods for the study of the immunological synapse. This first volume covers various aspects on T cell and natural killer (NK) cell synapses, including imaging polarized granule release using TIRF microscopy, analysis of actin reorganization and centrosome polarization, redirected degranulation, live cell-imaging to quantify cytotoxic and chemotactic dynamics, quantification of interactions between APCs and T cells, assessment of membrane lipid state at the immunological synapse, proteomic analysis and imaging of NK-tumor cell interaction, evaluating natural killer cell effector functions against breast cancer cells derived from human tumor tissue, evaluation of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified cell immunological synapse quality using the glass-supported planar lipid bilayer, and monitoring potency of therapeutic CAR T cells. It also includes one chapter on quantification of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus specific T cells and LCMV viral titers, and one chapter on the murine antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis assay.

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