Some Key Topics in Chemistry and Biochemistry for Biotechnologists

The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology. It informs the readers about:

• How micro-fluidics are proving useful in enzyme kinetics.
• Chemi-proteomics; combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening in the context of drug discovery.
• How enzymes can be used with gaseous substrates?
• How to source more robust enzymes from marine resources for diverse applications?
• Why some nano-materials can be chiral?
• Synthesis of diverse quantum dots as powerful fluorescent probes in biology.
• How basics of surface chemistry and immunology are vital in dealing with endemics/pandemics like Covid-19.

Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [1975-2018]. A Ph.D [Biochemistry] from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was followed by post-doc at University of Minnesota [USA]; MIT [USA]; UTC [France] and Lund University [Sweden]. He is a fellow of both National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. His previous edited/co-edited books include Thermostability of Enzymes [Springer]; Interfaces of Nano-materials and Microbes [CRC]; Three Phase Partitioning [Elsevier] and Structure and Intrinsic disorder in Enzymology [Elsevier]. He is currently series editor for ’’Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology’’ [Elsevier]. He has published 300 scientific articles with current h-index of 60.