DNA and RNA Modification Enzymes: Structure, Mechanism, Function and Evolution

Henri Grosjean

Juni 2009 · CRC Press

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This volume is a timely and comprehensive description of the many facets of DNA and RNA modification-editing processes and to some extent repair mechanisms. Each chapter offers fundamental principles as well as up to date information on recent advances in the field (up to end 2008). They ended by a shortconclusion and future prospect' section and

Autoren-Profil

HENRI GROSJEAN, PhD, began his studies at the University of Brussels in Belgium, earning degrees in chemistry and biochemistry. After his postdoctoral stay in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Yale University, he accepted a Professorship in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Brussels. His early teaching centered on fundamental biochemistry while he also directed a small research group. He left the post after 20 years to join the Center of National Research (CNRS) in France as a Group Leader and full time researcher in the Laboratory of Structural Enzymology and Biochemistry in Gif-sur-Yvette near Paris. After 42 years working in academic research, he still enjoys working as an Emeritus Scientist at the University of Paris-11 in Orsay.