书目名称 | The World of Peptides | 副标题 | A Brief History of P | 编辑 | Theodor Wieland,Miklos Bodanszky | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Almost two centuries ago proteins were recognized as the primary materials (proteios = primary) oflife, but the significance and wide role of peptides (from pepsis = digestion) in practically all life pro cesses has only become apparent in the last few decades. Biologi cally active peptides are now being discovered at rapid intervals in the brain and in other organs including the heart, in the skin of amphibians and many other tissues. Peptides and peptide-like compounds are found among toxins and antibiotics. It is unlikely that this process, an almost explosive broadening of the field, will come to a sudden halt. By now it is obvious that Nature has used the combination of a small to moderate number of amino acids to generate a great variety of agonists with specific and often highly sophisticated functions. Thus, peptide chemistry must be regarded as a discipline in its own right, a major branch of biochemistry, fairly separate from the chemistry of proteins. Because of the important role played by synthesis both in the study and in the practical preparation of peptides, their area can be considered as belonging to bio-organic chemistry as well. The already overwhelming and st | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | Alanin; Chemical synthesis; amino acid; antibiotics; biochemistry; chemistry; crystal; enzymes; heart; nuclei | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75850-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-75852-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-75850-8 | copyright | Spinger-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991 |
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