Table of Contents

Molecular, Thermodynamic, and Biological Aspects of Recognition and Function in Neurophysin--Hormone Systems: A Model System for the Analysis of Protein--Peptide Interactions (E. Breslow & S. Burman). Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Thiol--Disulfide Exchange (H. Gilbert). Insulin and the Stimulation of Glycogen Synthesis----The Road from Glycogen Structure to Glycogen Synthase to Cyclic AMP--Dependent Protein Kinase to Insulin Mediators (J. Larner). Alanine Transfer RNA Synthetase: Structure--Function Relationships and Molecular Recognition of Transfer RNA (P. Schimmel). Cysteinyl Proteinases and Their Selective Inactivation (E. Shaw). Ribonucleotide Reductases (J. Stubbe). The Ferritin Family of Iron Storage Proteins (E. Theil). Index.

About the Author

Alton Meister was an American biochemist who made pioneering contributions to the study of glutathionemetabolism. He was born in New York, received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an MD from Cornell University Medical College. He then moved to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He remained there until 1955 when he became Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Tufts University.