Current Chemical Biology

ISSN: 1872-3136 - Volume 2, 3 Issues, 2008

Editor-in-Chief:

Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry
University of Karachi
Karachi - 75270
Pakistan

Editorial Advisory Board:

H.Y. Aboul-Enein (National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt)
B.B. Aggarwal (University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
A. Alimonti (National Health Institute, Rome, Italy)
M. Anzini (Universita’ di Siena, Siena, Italy)
J. Aqvist (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
A. Armstrong (Imperial College London, London, UK)
Y. Asakawa (Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan)
D. Astruc (Université Bordeaux I, Talence, France)
D.S. Auld (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
J. Ausio (University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada)
S.P. Bajaj (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
P. Balaram (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
A. Ballabio (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Napoli, Italy)
G. Balme (Université Claude Bernard, Villeurbanne, France)
R.A. Batey (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
D.J. Benos (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA)
B. Berkhout (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
I. Bertini (University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
A. Bianco (Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
R. Bilewicz (Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland)
R.E. Blankenship (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
M.L. Bolognesi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
C. Bolm (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
M.A. Bothwell (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
S. Braese (Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
S. Brakmann (University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany)
L. Brasili (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Nodena, Italy)
M. Braun (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
G. Brudvig (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
X.-H. Bu (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
H. Budzikiewicz (Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany)
R. Bursi (NV Organon, Oss, The Netherlands)
S. Caddick (University College London, London, UK)
G. Calo' (University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
M. Canton (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
M.-F. Carlier (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
G. Caron (University of Torino (I), Torino, Italy)
V.B. Carruthers (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A. Catania (Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy)
R. Chamberlin (University of California, Irvine, CA, USA)
Y.-T. Chang (New York University, New York, NY, USA)
D.Y. Chi (Inha University, Inchon, Korea)
J. Cinatl (Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany)
G.M. Clore (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
J.M. Concellón (Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain)
G. Costantino (Universitd di Perugia, Perugia, Italy)
B. Coulombe (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
P.G. Cozzi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
C. Cremo (The University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA)
M.D. Cummings (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., Exton, PA, USA)
J. Cuppoletti (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
D.M. Cyr (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
S. Dai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
T.M. Dawson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
U.R. Desai (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
G.R. Desiraju (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)
G. Dormán (Albany Molecular Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary)
S. Ducki (University of Salford, Salford, UK)
P.J. Dyson (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
F. Edelmann (Otto-von-Guericke-Univerity at Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany)
T. Elliott (University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, UK)
R.R. Ernst (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
I.J.S. Fairlamb (University of York, York, UK)
V.E. Fedorov (Siberian Branch of Russian Acad. of Sci., Novosibirsk, Russia)
L. Feng (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
A.P. Fields (Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, USA)
S. Freeman (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
A. Ganesan (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
J. Gao (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
A. Gasco (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)
V.A. Gault (University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland)
E. Gazit (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
B. Giese (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
E. Giralt (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
R.A. Glennon (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
H. Goldfine (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
A. Gomtsyan (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA)
B. Gong (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA)
C. Gowda (Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA)
A.M. Gronenborn (Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
H. Grubmueller (Max-Planck-Inst. for Biophys. Chem., Goettingen, Germany)
R.I. Gumport (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)
M.J. de Groot (Pfizer Global Res. and Develop., Sandwich Laboratories, Kent, UK)
R. Gust (Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
D. Hall (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
B. Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
J. Han (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA)
Y. Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
C. Haskell-Luevano (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
B. Hauer (BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany)
M. Hengartner (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
S.A. Henry (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
W. Hinrichs (University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany)
M. Hippler (University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany)
M. Hirama (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
J. Hiscott (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada)
W.J. Hoekstra (GlaxoSmithKline Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA)
F. Hof (University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada)
H.-J. Hofmann (Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany)
S. Homans (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
H. Höpfl (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
R. Horuk (Berlex Biosciences, Richmond, CA, USA)
N.V. Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
A. Imberty (CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble Cedex, France)
R.J. Isfort (Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Mason, OH, USA)
K.A. Jacobson (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
K.-T. Jeang (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
A.K.-Y. Jen (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
F. Jian (Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China)
L. Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
D.L.N. Johnson (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
A.L. Jonsson (Umea University, Umea, Sweden)
P. Joseph-Nathan (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico)
Y. Kayaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
P.A. Keller (University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia)
Z. Kelman (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA)
B.K. Keppler (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
H. Kessler (Inst. fuer Org. Chem. und Biochem., Garching, Germany)
Y. Kiso (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan)
Y. Kita (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
D. Klenerman (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
B. Koenig (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
U. Koert (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
K. Koide (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
H. Kotsuki (Kochi Universiy, Kochi, Japan)
A.P. Kozikowski (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
R. Krumlauf (Stowers Inst. for Med. Res., Kansas City, MO, USA)
W. Kunz (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
M.K. Lakshman (The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA)
J. Lange (Solvay Pharmaceuticals B.V., Weesp, The Netherlands)
S. LaPlante (Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
S.A. Laufer (Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
P.A. Lay (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
H.C. Lee (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
P. le Floch (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France)
A. Levitzki (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
S.V. Ley (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
J. Li (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
Y. Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
K.-J. Lin (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
B.H. Lipshutz (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
C.-M. Liu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
A. Llebaria (Research Unit on BioActive Molecules, Barcelona, Spain)
R. Lomoth (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
Y. Lu (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)
B. Ma (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT, USA)
D. Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
H.-M. Ma (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
J. Ma (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA)
S. Ma (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
L.R. MacGillivray (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
T. Maina (National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece)
A. Makriyannis (Bouve Coll. Hlth. Sci. Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA)
J.J. Manfredi (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)
A. Marabotti (Italian National Research Council, Avellino, Italy)
T. Martinek (University of Szeged, Szeged Eotvos, Hungary)
B. Mayer (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, Austria)
J.P. Mayer (Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
A. de Meijere (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Deutschland)
P. Metz (Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany)
W.A. Metz (Sanofi Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ, USA)
Y. Mo (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
N.J. de Mol (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
K. Morikawa (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
L. Morin-Allory (University of Orléans, Orléans Cedex, France)
S. Moro (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
J.D. Morrow (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
A. Müller (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)
O. Müller (Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany)
P.V. Murphy (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
G.H. Nancollas (The State University of New York, Amherst, NY, USA)
W. Nam (Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea)
K. Nagasawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
N. Neamati (Universiy of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
S.J. Ono (Emory University , London, UK)
T. Owa (Eisai Co., Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan)
S.-E. Park (Inha University, Incheon, Korea)
K.S. Patrick (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
S. Pennington (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
V. Pittalà (Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy)
M.R. Player (Johnson & Johnson Pharm. Res. & Develop., L.L.C, Exton, PA, USA)
P. Potter (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA)
M. Quan (Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Pennington, NJ, USA)
P. Quinn (King's College, London, UK)
T. Rabilloud (INSERM, Grenoble Cedex, France)
S.W. Ragsdale (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA)
C.G. Riordan (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA)
M.A. Rizzacasa (The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
D.D. Roberts (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
P.J. Robinson (Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia)
A. Rogach (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany)
E.B. Romero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
D.W. Rose (Veteran’s Medical Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA, USA)
A. Ross (UMASS Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA)
S. Ruchirawat (Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand)
T. Russo (University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)
M. Santoro (University "Federico II" of Naples, Napoli, Italy)
M. Sarikaya (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
K. Satake (Okayama University, Okayama, Japan)
A.P.H.J. Schenning (Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
H. Scheraga (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
G. Schneider (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany)
W. Schrader (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany)
H. Schwalbe (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)
P.H. Seeberger (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol. (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
T. Shimizu (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
I. Shin (Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)
M. Shionoya (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
J. Shlomai (The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)
F. Sieber (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
M. Sieber-Blum (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
R. Silvestri (University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy)
T.J. Simpson (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
R. Simpson (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Parkville, Australia)
P. Sinay (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
K. Soai (Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan)
D.V. Soldatov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
M. Sollogoub (Institut de chimie moléculaire, Paris Cedex, France)
A.J. Souers (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA)
S. Spiro (University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA)
D. Spitzner (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
S.S. Stojilkovic (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
B.M. Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA)
J. Storey (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK)
W.K. Surewicz (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
C. Szantay (Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary)
W. Tam (University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)
F. Tanaka (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA)
N. Taniguchi (Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan)
N. Tao (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
R.E. Taylor (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
D.B. Teplow (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
E.A. Theodorakis (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
J.A. Thomas (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
F. Tillequin (University of Paris, Paris, France)
P.J. Tonge (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
M. Tori (Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan)
B.M. Trost (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
V.V. Tsukruk (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
N.P.E. Vermeulen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
R. Verpoorte (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
G. Vistoli (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
N. Vitale (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France)
J.J. Vittal (National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore)
W. Voelter (Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
R.C. Wade (EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)
H. Waldmann (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany)
L.-J. Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
C.-C. Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
J. Wang (Encysive Pharmaceuticals Inc., Houston, TX, USA)
M.-X. Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
P.G. Wang (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
X.-F. Wang (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA)
S.M. Weinreb (Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
H. Weinstein (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA)
T. Wieder (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
R.M. Williams (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
C.C. Wilson (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, USA)
W. Wintermeyer (University of Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany)
T. Wirth (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
V. Wittmann (Universitaet Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
W.-D. Woggon (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
W.-T. Wong (The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
Z.-J. Yao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
K. Yamamoto (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
D.S.-C. Yang (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
T. Yokomatsu (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan)
B. Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
J. Yu (Jilin University, Changchun, China)
M. Yus (Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
G. Zanoni (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
J. Zemlicka (Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA)
H.C. Zeng (National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore)
Y. Zhou (Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
T. Ziegler (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
Y. Zick (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)