Applications of Enzyme Biotechnology

The Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program (IUCCP) has sponsored eight previous international symposia covering a range of topics of interest to industrial and academic chemists. The ninth IUCCP Symposium, held March 18-21, 1991 at Texas A&M University was the second in a two part series focusing on Biotechnology. The title for this Symposium "Applications of Enzyme Biotechnology" was by design a rather all encompassing title, similar in some respects to the discipline. Biotechnology refers to the application of biochemistry for the development of a commercial product. Persons employed in or interested in biotechnology may be chemists, molecular biologists, biophysicists, or physicians. The breadth of biotech research projects requires close collaboration between scientists of a variety of backgrounds, prejudices, and interests. Biotechnology is a comparatively new discipline closely tied to new developments in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and medicine. The primary function of Texas A&M University is to educate students who will be appropriately trained to carry out the mission of biotechnology. The IUCCP Symposium serves as an important forum for fostering closer ties between academia and industry and exchanging ideas so important to this evolving area.

Minisymposium on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Radiolabeled Antibodies: Methods for the Radiohalogenation of Antibodies; M. Zalutsky. Selective Functionalization of Alkanes by Enzymes and Their Models: Oxygenation by Methane Monooxygenase; J. Lipscomb. Relevance of GIF Chemistry to Enzyme Mechanisms; D.H.R. Barton. Protein Folding and Refolding for Commercially Important Proteins: Mutations Affecting Protein Folding and Misfolding In Vivo; A. Mitraki. Environmental Biotechnology: Organophosphorus Cholinesterase Inhibitors; J. DeFrank. Protein Processing New Techniques: Immobilized Artificial Membrane Chromatography; C. Pidgeon. Expression Systems Exogenous Proteins: Bacillus Subtilis; R. Doi. Poxvirus Vectors; B. Moss. Fifteen additional articles. Index.