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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830784403321

Titolo

Cyanide compounds in biology [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K. ; ; New York, : J. Wiley, 1988

ISBN

1-282-34757-8

9786612347573

0-470-51371-3

0-470-51372-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 140

Disciplina

574.19

574.19214

Soggetti

Cyanides - Physiological effect

Cyanides - Metabolism

Cyanides - Metabolic detoxification

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

"Symposium on Cyanide compounds in biology, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 15-17 March 1988"--P. v.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CYANIDE COMPOUNDS IN BIOLOGY; Contents; Participants; Introduction; Cyanide utilization and degradation by microorganisms; Microbial hydrolysis of organic nitriles and amides; The industrial potential of microbial nitrile biochemistry; Cyanogenic glucosides: the biosynthetic pathway and the enzyme system involved; Localization and catabolism of cyanogenic glycosides; Detoxification of cyanide by plants and hormone action; The molecular biology of cyanogenesis; Cyanogenesis and the role of cyanogenic compounds in insects; Cyanogenesis in animal-plant interactions; General discussion

Determination of cyanide and cyanogenic compounds systems in biologicalMammalian cyanide detoxification with sulphane sulphur; Nutritional and biochemical factors influencing the biological effects of cyanide; The mechanism of cyanide intoxication and its antagonism; Final general discussion; Chairman's summary; Index of Contributors; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Comprises the proceedings of a symposium held at the Ciba



Foundation, March 1988. Contributors present an international, interdisciplinary approach to the biology and biological chemistry of cyanide and related compounds. Addressed are the microbial metabolism of HCN and organic nitrile compounds, cyanogenesis in higher plants, qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis of cyanogenic glycosides, and detoxification of hydrogen cyanide by animals.