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The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology. It informs the readers about:
How micro-fluidics are proving useful in enzyme kinetics.¿
Chemi-proteomics; combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening in the context of drug discovery.
How enzymes can be used with gaseous substrates?
How to source more robust enzymes from marine resources for diverse applications?
Why some nano-materials can be chiral?
Synthesis of diverse quantum dots as powerful fluorescent probes in biology.
How basics of surface chemistry and immunology are vital in dealing with endemics/pandemics like Covid-19.
List of contents
Uses of Flow-based Systems for Enzyme Kinetics. Chemoproteomics: An Extremely Powerful Kit in Drug Discovery Toolbox. Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening Methods. Fundamentals and Applications of Solid/Gas Biocatalysis. Biochemistry and Biomolecules of Halophiles: Recent Trends and Prospects. Marine Enzymes: Exploiting Bacterial Resource for Blue Biotechnology. Quantum Dots in Biological Sciences. Chirality in Nanomaterials: Occurrence, Methods of Determination and Biochemical Significance. Surface Chemistry and Immunochemistry at a Crossroad called COVID-19.
About the author
Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [1975-2018]. A Ph.D [Biochemistry] from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was followed by post-doc at University of Minnesota [USA]; MIT [USA]; UTC [France] and Lund University [Sweden]. He is a fellow of both National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. His previous edited/co-edited books include Thermostability of Enzymes [Springer]; Interfaces of Nano-materials and Microbes [CRC]; Three Phase Partitioning [Elsevier] and Structure and Intrinsic disorder in Enzymology [Elsevier]. He is currently series editor for ‘’Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology’’ [Elsevier]. He has published 300 scientific articles with current h-index of 60.
Summary
The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology.
