Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino
acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination …

Nanoparticle (NP)-based therapeutics have ushered in a new era in translational medicine.
However, despite the clinical success of NP technology, it is not well-understood how NPs …

Meat color is important for consumer acceptability, with excessively dark meat often
associated with consumer rejection. It is determined chromatically by pigment content …

We describe the draft genome of the microcrustacean Daphnia pulex, which is only 200
megabases and contains at least 30,907 genes. The high gene count is a consequence of …

Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

The title to a seminar presentation by IC Gunsalus in 1973 was “Oxygen: An essential toxin”,
referring to the complex role that atmospheric dioxygen has in biology. The relatively simple …

This is the second set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science. Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and
their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in …

After several decades of intensive efforts, safe injectable preparations capable of effectively
delivering O2 to tissues and removing CO2, ie, so-called blood substitutes, appear to be …

The majority of modern organisms, including many prokaryotes, are aerobes; 1 that is, they
use molecular oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor for energy generation. Although …