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Record Nr.

UNINA9910643797703321

Titolo

Ciba Foundation Symposium on Amino Acids and Peptides with Antimetabolic Activity [[electronic resource] /] / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Little, Brown and Co., [1958]

ISBN

1-280-76863-0

9786613679406

0-470-71911-7

0-470-71658-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation Symposia ; ; v.898

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

O'ConnorCecilia M <1927-> (Cecilia Mary)

Disciplina

547.75

Soggetti

Antimetabolites

Amino acids

Peptides

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

AMINO ACIDS AND PEPTIDES WITH ANTIMETABOLIC ACTIVITY; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; The stereochemistry of naturally occurring b-amino acids; Discussion; The mode of action of chloramphenicol; Discussion; A preliminary study of the influence of amino acid deficiencies on experimental cancer chemotherapy; Discussion; Some aspects of azaserine, 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine and b-2-thienylalanine; The interference of azaserine in purine biosynthesis; Discussion; Amino acid and peptide derivatives with potential antitumour properties

Clinical effects of amino acids carrying nitrogen mustard groupsFurther clinical observations on p-di(2-chloroethyl)amino-DL-phenylalanine (sarcolysine) in comparison with some other chloroethylamine derivatives; Discussion; Recent developments in actinomycin chemistry; Discussion; Clinical and biological studies with actinomycins; Discussion; The chemistry of etamycin; Discussion; The aminoacyl insertion reaction and peptide chemistry; Discussion; Synthesis of cyclic



polypeptides; Discussion; General Discussion; Disulphide crosslinking in cysteine peptides; Discussion

Structure and function of some sulphur-containing peptidesDiscussion; Bacitracin; Discussion; Oxidative formation of biologically active compounds from peptides; Discussion; General Discussion; Chairman's closing remarks