Dr. William Cramer edits book to be published mid July

06-29-2016

Cytochrome Complexes: Evolution, Structures, Energy Transduction, and Signaling

• Hardback, 784 pp, to be published July 16, 2016
• Editors, William A. Cramer & Toivo Kallas

An Introduction that describes the origin of cytochrome notation also connects to the history of the field, focusing on research in England in the pre-World War II era. The start of the modern era of studies on structure-function of cytochromes and energy-transducing membrane proteins was marked by the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given to J. Deisenhofer, H. Michel, and R. Huber for determination of the crystal structure of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center. An ab initio logic of presentation in the book discusses the evolution of cytochromes and hemes, followed by theoretical perspectives on electron transfer in proteins and specifically in cytochromes. There is an extensive description of the molecular structures of cytochromes and cytochrome complexes from eukaryotic and prokaryotic sources, bacterial, plant and animal. The presentation of atomic structure information has a major role in these discussions, and makes an important contribution to the broad field of membrane protein structure-function. Price, only $ 499.

ISSN1572-0233; 2215-0102 (electronic)
Book to be published July 16, 2016
Art work (inside cover) by S. Saif Hasan.
Books in a series published on a 25 year cycle, with the first., "Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes" published by Springer-Verlag in 1991.