In the January 31, 2011 issue of C&E News, three presentations were highlighted for their potential to accelerate research into enzyme mechanisms. Read more at C&E News Online (subscription required).
The Division of Biological Chemistry will offer travel awards on a competitive basis for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the meeting and present a poster on their research. The selected travel awardees will be reimbursed up to $500 for expenses.
Former Past Division of Biological Chemistry Chair John Blanchard reflects on his time in that post and thanks major contributors.
Dates and times of planned symposia for the 241st ACS National Meeting have been posted at Meetings –> ACS. Take a look and plan your days in Anaheim around great Biological Chemistry!
The elected officers for the Division of Biological Chemistry have been posted. Congratulations!
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Identification of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Importin β Mediated Nuclear Import by Confocal On-Bead Screening of Tagged One-Bead One-Compound Libraries by Martin Hintersteiner, Larry Gerace, Manfred Auer and colleagues. ACS Chem. Biol., 2010, 5 (10), pp 967–979. In eukaryotic cells, proteins and RNAs are transported between the nucleus and the cytoplasm by nuclear import and export receptors.
Ribozymes and Riboswitches: Modulation of RNA Function by Small Molecules by Jinwei Zhang, Matthew W. Lau, Adrian R. Ferré-D’Amaré. Biochemistry 2010 49 (43), 9123-9131. Diverse small molecules interact with catalytic RNAs (ribozymes) as substrates and cofactors, and their intracellular concentrations are sensed by gene-regulatory mRNA domains (riboswitches) that modulate transcription, splicing, translation, or RNA stability.
New Information about the 241st ACS National Meeting has been posted in Meetings –> ACS.
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