Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
Enzymes are the molecular machines that make life possible. Working as catalysts, teams of enzymes carry out the processes that power the bodies of living things, from making DNA to digesting food. This book explains what enzymes are, what they do, and how...
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Enzymes are the molecular machines that make life possible. Working as catalysts, teams of enzymes carry out the processes that power the bodies of living things, from making DNA to digesting food. This book explains what enzymes are, what they do, and how they do it, from enzymes inside our cells to those in washing powders and food production.
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Enzymes are the astonishing, tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes that collectively we recognise as life, from making DNA to digesting food. This Very Short Introduction explains the why and the how of speeding up these reactions - catalysis - before going on to reveal how we have evolved these catalysts of such extraordinary power and exquisite selectivity. Paul Engel shows how X-ray crystallography has revealed the complex molecular shapes that allow enzymes to function at an extraordinarily sophisticated level. He also examines medical aspects of enzymes, both in the way faulty enzymes cause disease and in the way enzymes can be used for diagnosis and therapy. Finally, he looks at the many varied ways in which individual enzymes, taken out of their biological context, are used nowadays as tools - in washing powders, food production, waste treatment, and chemical synthesis.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction “
- 1: No Enzymes, No Life
- 2: Making Things Happen - Catalysis
- 3: The Chemical Nature of Enzymes
- 4: Structure for Catalysis
- 5: Enzymes in Action
- 6: Metabolic Pathways and Enzyme Evolution
- 7: Enzymes and Disease
- 8: Enzymes as Tools
- 9: Enzymes and Genes - New Horizons
- References
- Further reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Engel
Paul Engel is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at University College Dublin. He lectured at Sheffield for many years before taking up the Chair of Biochemistry at University College Dublin in 1994, where his research career focussed on enzymology, kinetics, and protein engineering. Paul Engel has taken an active interest in the public awareness of science and started a programme at UCD for training Ph. D. students in presenting science to the public. Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2001, he has also chaired its Life Sciences Committee. In 2010 he was awarded the Biochemical Irish Area Section's Medal for outstanding research carried out in Ireland.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Engel
- 2020, 192 Seiten, Maße: 11,5 x 17,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019882498X
- ISBN-13: 9780198824985
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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A fairly comprehensive textbook that provides a decent technical grounding in enzymology and will no doubt teach many professional biologists a thing or two Nadia Abbott AMRSB, The Biologist
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