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9780195135077

Perspectives in Amino Acid and Protein Geochemistry

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    9780195135077

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    0195135075

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-03-22
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Amino Acids are not only the essential constituents of all living organisms, they also provide vital clues about life in the past. This book of contributed papers updates the science of amino acid geochemistry and replaces a classic but now outdated work, The Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids (out of print). The new book will have a wider focus than its predecessor, covering preservation of ancient proteins and amino acids, diagenesis of proteins and amino acids through geologic time and on short time scales (relevant to the preservation of museum materials), stable isotope geochemistry of proteins and amino acids, amino acid racemization, the origin of life, the stability of amino acids at hgh temperatures and pressures, and extraterrestrial amino acids. The primary audience for this book will be academics and graduate students in geochemistry, organic chemistry, archaeology, geochronology, and stratigraphy, although it will also be of interest to workers in forensic science.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Introduction 1(6)
Glenn A. Goodfriend
I. Extraterrestrial amino acids and origin of life
Extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteorite: re-evaluation after thirty years
7(8)
Keith A. Kvenvolden
Daniel P. Glavin
Jeffrey L. Bada
Chirality of meteoritic organic matter: a brief review
15(8)
J. R. Cronin
S. Pizzarello
Thermodynamies of amino acid synthesis in hydrothermal systems on early Earth
23(18)
Jan P. Amend
Everett L. Shock
Early pre- and post-biotic synthesis of alanine: an alternative to the Strecker synthesis
41(10)
Jay A. Brandes
Robert M. Hazen
Hatten S. Yoder
George D. Cody
II. Isotopic studies of amino acids and proteins
A model for the effect of weaning on nitrogen isotope ratios in humans
51(9)
Andrew R. Millard
Isotopic integrity of α-carboxyglycine (aminomalonate) in fossil bone based on 14C data
60(9)
Richard R. Burky
Donna L. Kirner
R. E. Taylor
P. E. Hare
John R. Southon
III. Preservation and diagenesis of amino acids and proteins
Early diagenesis of particulate amino acids in marine systems
69(14)
Richard G. Keil
Elizabeth Tsamakis
John I. Hedges
Preservation of amino acids in museum herbarium samples
83(5)
Mark A. Teece
Noreen Tuross
W. John Kress
Paul M. Peterson
George Russell
Marilyn L. Fogel
Biogeochemical diagenesis in recent mammalian bones from saline lakes in western Victoria, Australia
88(20)
Bonnie A. B. Blackwell
William M. Last
N. W. Rutter
Characterization of ultrastructural and biochemical characteristics of modern and fossil shells
108(12)
L. L. Robbins
S. Andrews
P. H. Ostrom
Amino acid racemization in biominerals: the impact of protein degradation and loss
120(25)
Matthew J. Collins
Michael S. Riley
IV. Amino acid racemization kinetics
Amino acid racemization in ostracodes
145(16)
Darrell S. Kaufman
Isoleucine epimerization in eggshells of the flightless Australian birds Genyornis and Dromaius
161(21)
Gifford H. Miller
Charles P. Hart
E. Brendan Roark
Beverly J. Johnson
The interpretation of aspartic acid racemization of dentine proteins
182(13)
Emma R. Waite
Matthew J. Collins
Interpretation of D/L amino acid data from agricultural soils
195(7)
Ronald W. L. Kimber
Charles V. Griffin
Kinetics of aspartic acid racemization in Mya and Hiatella: modeling age and paleotemperature of high-latitude Quaternary mollusks
202(17)
William F. Manley
Gifford H. Miller
Julie Czywczynski
The thermal environment of fossils: effective ground temperatures at aminostratigraphic sites on the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain
219(34)
John F. Wehmiller
Hilmar A. Stecher III
Linda L. York
Irving Friedman
V. Amino acid racemization dating applications
Revised aminostratigraphy for land-sea correlations from the northeastern North Atlantic margin
253(10)
D. Q. Bowen
Aminostratigraphy of two Pleistocene marine sequences from the Mediterranean coast of Spain: Cabo de Huertas (Alicante) and Garrucha (Almeria)
263(16)
Trinidad Torres
Juan F. Llamas
Laureano Canoira
F. Javier Coello
Pilar Garcia-Alonso
Jose E. Ortiz
Quaternary coastal aminostratigraphy: Australian data in a global context
279(22)
Colin V. Murray-Wallace
Amino acid geochronology of Quaternary coastal terraces on the northern margin of Delaware Bay, southern New Jersey, U.S.A.
301(19)
Michael L. O'Neal
John F. Wehmiller
Wayne L. Newell
Chronostratigraphy of sediments in the southern Gulf of California, based on amino acid racemization analysis of mollusks and coralline algae
320(11)
Glenn A. Goodfriend
Jochen Halfer
Lucio Godinez-Orta
Aminostratigraphic correlation of loess-paleosol sequences across Europe
331(18)
Eric A. Oches
William D. McCoy
Dagmar Gnieser
Aspartic acid racemization and protein preservation in the dentine of Pleistocene European bear teeth
349(8)
Trinidad Torres
Juan F. Llamas
Laureano Canoira
Pilar Garcia-Alonso
Index 357

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