Long-lived Proteins in Human Aging and Disease

This authoritative overview on an emerging topic in the molecular life sciences explores the aging of (long-lived) proteins and their role in age-related diseases and in determining human lifespan.

List of contents

Modification of Long-lived Proteins and Protein InsolubilityChaperones as Agents that Detect and Bind to Modified Long-lived ProteinsAutophagy and ProteostasisComparison of PTMs of Long-lived Proteins from Various TissuesImaging Methodologies to Visualise Long-lived ProteinsGlycosylation and Other PTMs of Long-lived ProteinsHuman Aging and Long-lived Proteins

About the author

Roger Truscott is a Research Professor at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong. Having obtained his PhD at Melbourne University, he has spent most of his academic career working for the University of Sydney and the University of Wollongong. He has authored over 200 scientific publications. His main field of research is human aging with particular reference to age-related diseases, such as cataract. He has received numerous awards including a senior NHMRC fellowship and the National Foundation for Eye Research (USA) Cataract Research Award.

Summary

This authoritative overview on an emerging topic in the molecular life sciences explores the aging of (long-lived) proteins and their role in age-related diseases and in determining human lifespan.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Truscott, Roger J. W. Truscott
• Assisted by: Roge J W Truscott (Editor), Roger J W Truscott (Editor), Roge Truscott (Editor), Roger Truscott (Editor), Roger J. W. Truscott (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2021
• EAN: 9783527347285
• ISBN: 978-3-527-34728-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 16 mm x 253 mm
• Weight: 574 g
• Illustrations: 80 SW-Abb., 80 Farbabb.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry; Chemie, Biochemie, Medizin, Proteine, Life Sciences, alterung, Biowissenschaften, chemistry, Zell- u. Molekularbiologie, Cell & Molecular Biology, Medical Science, Biochemie u. Chemische Biologie, Biochemistry (Chemical Biology), Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Zell- u. Molekularmedizin