Is the brain ready for physical organic chemistry?

✍ Scribed by Dennis A. Dougherty

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 218 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1395(199805)11:5<334::aid-poc21>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

Efforts to developed detailed insights into the structure and function of the molecules of memory, thought and sensory perception-physical organic chemistry on the brain-are described. By combining more conventional chemical tools with a number of techniques adapted from modern biology, it is now possible to perform systematic structure-function studies on the integral membrane proteins that play a central role in molecular neurobiology. There are substantial challenges associated with such studies, but we believe the potential payoff is considerable.