Frontiers of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology covers the proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, held in Moscow and Tashkent, USSR on September 25-October 2, 1978. This symposium is devoted to a discussion of the physico-chemical basis of life processes. This book contains 56 chapters, and reflects the results in the study of peptides and proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other biopolymers. Other chapters deal with the study of low molecular regulators, including steroids, alkaloids, and antibiotics. This book also includes discussion of the achievements in the study of genetic structures and of cellular protein synthesizing systems of the molecular basis of enzymic catalysis and of bioenergetic processes. This book will be of value to biochemists and molecular biologists.

1. K. Kano: Selectivities of Applied Chemistry 2. A. Pl}ckthun: Antibody Engineering to Study Protein-Ligand Interactions and Catalysis: The Phosphorylcholine Binding Antibodies 3. M.W. Hosseini: Supramolecular Catalysis of Phosphoryl Transfer Processes 4. G. von Kiedrowski: Minimal Replicator Theory II: Parabolic versus ExponentialGrowth 5. A. Bacher, W. Eisenreich, K. Kis, R. Ladenstein, G. Richter, J. Scheuring, S. Weinkauf: Biosynthesis of Flavins 6. C.L. Hannon, E.V.Anslyn: The Guanidinium Group: Its Biological Role and Synthetic Analogs.

Better understanding of life processes on a molecular level is the aim of Bioorganic Chemistry. Structure elucidation, synthesis of biomimetic models, theoretical and mechanistic concepts e.g. of enzyme action are the basic tools. The new series will bring together critical reviews on the progress in this field.

Progress in biological and biochemical research is based mainly on a better understanding of life processes on a molecular level. Modern chemical techniques for structural elucidation even of sophisticated biomolecules and theoretical and mechanistic considerations help us to understand structure-function relations, metabolic processes, molecular and cellular recognition, and the reproduction of life. This series, Bioorganic Chemistry Frontiers, will bring together critical reviews on the progress in this field.