Papers by Leopoldo Silvestroni
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 1981
The renewed interest in chloroplasts-the best known of the plastids-comes from the realization th... more The renewed interest in chloroplasts-the best known of the plastids-comes from the realization that these cell components seem to be autonomous intracellular entities involved in developmental biochemical processes. In this book such "new" aspects of chloroplasts are discussed. The text begins with a description of the various kinds of plastids and deals with their possible interconversion; the regulatory mechanisms of division and replication of plastids are discussed in relation to those regulating cell division. Two large chapters, perhaps the most stimulating, deal with genetic elements of chloroplasts: the DNA molecule in its steric and dynamic aspects; chromosomes; the RNA and protein synthesis. One chapter is devoted to functional characteristics of tilakoids in which photosynthetic processes take place, the ontogenesis of chloroplasts in relation to membrane enzymes, followed by the cooperation between nuclear and plastidic DNA. The main aspects of protein "fraction I" (i.e. its structure, isolation, and-above all-its functional role in the C02 fixation in the Calvin cycle) are also illustrated. The specificity of arguments makes this a book of a highly specialistic nature.
vii-214, pp., DM 88/US $ 48.40T.K. Ghose, A. Fiechter and N. Blakebrough, Advances in Biochemical Engineering, Vol. 13, Mass Transfer and Process Control, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York (1979) J Electroanal Chem, 1980
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Papers by Leopoldo Silvestroni