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Discovering enzymes / David Dressler, Huntington Potter

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientific American Library series ; no. 34Publisher: New York : Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, ℗♭1991Description: vi, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0716750139 (hardback)
  • 9780716750130 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 574.1925
LOC classification:
  • 574.1925
NLM classification:
  • QU 135 D773d 1991
Contents:
Prologue. Alchemists of the living cell -- 1. The discovery of enzymes -- 2. Lock and key -- 3. The chemical identification of enzymes -- 4. The anatomy of an enzyme -- 5. The physiology of an enzyme -- 6. The evolution of an enzyme family -- 7. The cooperative action of enzymes
Summary: This book is based on experience gained teaching molecular biology to students at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. It offers and integrated and self-contained approach to one of the most fascinating areas of biology and chemistry -- the study of enzymes, the molecular machines that are responsible for carrying out the activities of living cells. The book begins simply and gradually becomes more complex as discoveries are introduced that represent the frontiers of modern chemistry. The whole of the material is arranged as a story -- it leads from the discovery of enzymes to an exploration of their molecular mechanism of action to an understanding of their role in carrying out the physiological precesses of the body
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"This book is number 34 of a series"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (page 257) and index

Prologue. Alchemists of the living cell -- 1. The discovery of enzymes -- 2. Lock and key -- 3. The chemical identification of enzymes -- 4. The anatomy of an enzyme -- 5. The physiology of an enzyme -- 6. The evolution of an enzyme family -- 7. The cooperative action of enzymes

This book is based on experience gained teaching molecular biology to students at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. It offers and integrated and self-contained approach to one of the most fascinating areas of biology and chemistry -- the study of enzymes, the molecular machines that are responsible for carrying out the activities of living cells. The book begins simply and gradually becomes more complex as discoveries are introduced that represent the frontiers of modern chemistry. The whole of the material is arranged as a story -- it leads from the discovery of enzymes to an exploration of their molecular mechanism of action to an understanding of their role in carrying out the physiological precesses of the body

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