From JCBN and NC-IUBMB
1. Enzyme nomenclature. Recommendations 1992. Supplement 1: corrections and additions, by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) Eur. J. Biochem. 223, 1-5 (1994).
This supplement, together with all enzymes of subclass EC 3.4 (peptidases), is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/enzyme/.
2. A nomenclature of junctions and branchpoints in nucleic acids, by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) Eur. J. Biochem. 230, 1-2 (1995), reprinted in J. Mol. Biol. 255, 554-555 (1996) and in Nucleic Acids Res. 23, 3363-3364 (1995).
3. Enzyme nomenclature. Recommendations 1992. Supplement 2: corrections and additions (1994), by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) Eur. J. Biochem. 232, 1-6 (1995).
This supplement, together with all enzymes of subclass EC 3.4 (peptidases), is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/enzyme/.
4. Enzyme nomenclature. Recommendations 1992. Supplement 3: corrections and additions (1995), by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) Eur. J. Biochem. 237, 1-5 (1996).
This supplement, together with all enzymes of subclass EC 3.4 (peptidases), is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/enzyme/.
5. Recommendations for nomenclature and tables in biochemical thermodynamics. Recommendations 1994, by the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN) Pure Appl. Chem. 66, 1641- 1666 (1994), reprinted in Eur. J. Biochem. 240, 1-14 (1996), correct page 11 in 242, 433 (1996); also accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/thermod/
6. Nomenclature of carbohydrates. Recommendations 1996, by the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN) Pure Appl. Chem. 68, 1919-2008 (1996), reprinted in Carbohydr. Res. 297, 1-90 (1997) and in Adv. Carbohydr. Chem. Biochem. 52, 43-177 (1997), also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/2carb/
From the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
1. Glossary for chemists of terms used in biotechnology. Recommendations 1992, by the Commission on Biotechnology of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Pure Appl. Chem. 64, 143-168 (1992).
2. Selection of terms, symbols and units related to microbial processes. Recommendations 1992, by the Commission on Biotechnology of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Pure Appl. Chem. 64, 1047-1053 (1992).
3. A guide to IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds. Recommendations 1993 (Panico, R., Powell, W. H. & Richer, J. C., eds), by the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (CNOC) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 1993.
4. Quantities, units and symbols in physical chemistry, 2nd edn, (Mills, I., Cvitas, T., Homann, K., Kallay, N. & Kuchitsu, K., eds), by the Commission on Physicochemical Symbols, Terminology and Units of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 1993.
5. Revised nomenclature for radicals, ions, radical ions and related species. Recommendations 1993, by the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (CNOC) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Pure Appl. Chem. 65, 1357-1455 (1993).
6. Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry. Revised Recommendations 1994, by the Commission on Physical Organic Chemistry (CPOC) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Pure Appl. Chem. 66, 1077- 1184 (1994), also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/gtpoc/
7. Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactive intermediates based on structure. Recommendations 1995, by the Commissions on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (CNOC) and of Physical Organic Chemistry (CPOC) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Pure Appl. Chem. 67, 1307- 1375 (1995), also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/class/
8. Compendium of terminology and nomenclature of properties in clinical laboratory sciences. Recommendations 1995 (Rigg, J. C., Brown, S. S., Dybkaer, R. & Olesen, H., eds), by the Commission on Quantities and Units in Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) Blackwell Science, Oxford 1995.
9. Glossary of terms used in bioinorganic chemistry (1995): A provisional nomenclature report by a working party (de Bolster, M. W. G., Cammack, R., Coucouvanis, D. N., Reedijk, J. & Veeger, C.) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 1, G1-G29 (1996).
Other publications of interest
1. Webb, E. C. (1993) Enzyme nomenclature. A personal retrospective, FASEB J. 7, 1192-1194 (1993).
2. McIntyre, W. S. (1992) Wither PQQ, Essays Biochem. 27, 119-134. A useful addition to the quinoproteins section of Nomenclature of electron-transfer proteins. Recommendations 1989 of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry (NC-IUB) published in Eur. J. Biochem. 200, 599-611 (1991), corrections and improvements in 213, 2-3 (1993), reprinted in Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1060, vii- xix (1991) and in J. Biol. Chem. 267, 665-677 (1992), also pages 534-561 in [14].
3. Perler, B., Davis, E. O., Dean, G. E., Gimble, F. S., Jack, W. E., Neff, N., Noren, C. J., Thorner, J. & Belfort, M. (1994) Protein splicing elements: inteins and exteins. A definition of terms and recommended nomenclature, Nucleic Acids Res. 22, 1125-1127.
4. Nomenclature of sequenced plant genes, by the Commission on Plant Gene Nomenclature of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (1994) Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 12/2 (supplement).
5. The encyclopedia of molecular biology (Kendrew, J., et al., eds), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 1994, 1152 pages. Contains sections on structural biology, molecular genetics, bacteria and bacteriophages, cell biology, evolution, developmental biology, immunology, neurobiology, molecular medicine and plant molecular biology.
6. Genetic nomenclature guide, including information on genomic databases. A special issue of Trends in Genetics, March 1995, 43 pages.
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