Looking at Ribozymes: From Atomic to Molecular and Cellular Scales

Author: Leclerc, Fabrice

Brand: Elsevier

Edition: 1

ISBN: 9781785482106

Release Date: 15-12-2029

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 130

Details: Product Description

Looking at Ribozymes: From Atomic to Molecular and Cellular Scales introduces ideas on how ribozymes “work” through a comparison of their common features and specificities. It covers how the (macro) molecular organization at different scales make it possible, what function they carry, where they are found, how they evolved, and how have they been used. The book emphasizes common and specific features of natural and artificial ribozymes, from the basics, to more advanced aspects, making it ideal for undergraduates, grad students and researchers. Specific sections cover different areas of research, from the atomic scale (catalysis), to the molecular (folding, dynamics).
In addition, other sections cover macromolecular and cellular scales (dynamics, long-range interactions, self-assembly, cellular processes). The book is not a directory of ribozymes, it instead provides comparative knowledge, including the interdependent relationships between the different scales of description based on different experimental and theoretical approaches.

Review

Covers key aspects of ribozyme structure, including function, evolution and design, catalysis and catalysts, folding and conformational changes

About the Author

Fabrice Leclerc is a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris with expertise in Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Structural Biology

Benoît Masquida was born in Strasbourg in 1970. After a national competition of crystallography and biological biology, he made a visit under the direction of Professor Eric Westhof in Strasbourg, where he is fascinated by the study of the structure of nucleic acids by modeling. molecular and by crystallography. After that, he is part of Yale University in the US to continue his structural studies at Professor Jennifer Doudna.
Since 2001, he has been a researcher at the CNRS in the study of RNA structures with a marked interest for ribozymes and protein-RNA complexes in the context of various biological methods such as the inflammatory response or the role of RNA in mitochondria. He is the author of about fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.