1st Edition

Medicinal Protein Engineering

Edited By Yury E. Khudyakov Copyright 2009
586 Pages
by CRC Press

586 Pages
by CRC Press

586 Pages
by CRC Press

An All-Inclusive Review of the Achievements and Trends in the Fast-Growing Protein Engineering Field From humble beginnings like making fire for mere survival, engineering now steadfastly penetrates all aspects of our lives and even life itself at the molecular level. Protein engineering is a molecular biological discipline focused on designing and constructing novel proteins with... Read more

Computational Approaches. Web Resources for Protein Analysis. Artificial Neural Networks for Therapeutic Protein Engineering. Phylogenetics and Medicinal Protein Engineering. Clustering and Classification Approaches to Identifying Protein Properties. Analysis of Coordinated Substitutions in Proteins. Protein Engineering Targets: Vaccine. Tuning the Immune Response to Our Advantage: Design of Vaccines with Tailored Functions. Modification of HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein to Enhance Immunogenicity. Engineering Better Influenza Vaccines: Traditional and New Approaches. Construction of Novel Vaccines on the Basis of Virus-Like Particles: Hepatitis B Virus Proteins as Vaccine Carriers. Polyomavirus-Derived Virus-Like Particles. Papillomavirus-Derived Virus-Like Particles. Recombinant Vaccines Against Hepatitis Viruses. Protein Engineering Targets: Diagnostics and Therapy. Designer Diagnostic Reagents and Allergens. Peptide-Based Diagnostic Assays. Recombinant Antibodies. Protein Engineering for HIV Therapeutics. Recombinant Enzymes with New and Improved Properties. Special Expression Systems. Production of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Plants. Plant Virus Biotechnology Platforms for Expression of Medicinal Proteins. Alphaviruses: Multiplicity of Vectors and Their Promising Application as Vaccines and Cancer Therapy Agents. Index.

Biography

Khudyakov, Yury E.