Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Textbook on the atomic structures of proteins. For students. Includes colorful illustrations. Previous edition: c1991. Softcover, hardcover also available.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Good Explanations:
This text book is good at explaining all of the topics covered. In many sections, the authors give the general explanation and then subsequently give several real examples to further illustrate the point being made. There are many figures and illustrations used to explain the topics as well. Overall, it is as good as any other textbook. The book does not give as detailed information about nucleic acids and their structures as my professor would have liked, but then it is titled "protein structure."
A great book!:
I love this book. It is well written and organised, and all the basic topics about protein structure are covered.
Great for undergrads and graduate students:
This book is very good at explaining the basics of proteins and their structure. Any student who plans on doing any sort of protein research should consider this a must have for their library. The pictures are colorful and contain valuable easy to understand information. But the information shown is not over-crowded as some texts tend to do. The authors did not try to put too much information into one picture, but split the information between a number of illistrations. The sections on protein... more info
Excellent introductory text on Proteins:
This is a great introductory text on protein science. It starts off with the basic chemistry of amino acids and polypeptides and goes from there into higher order structural organization of many proteins of many families. Reading this book allows one to think about protein function being a direct result of what the structure imposes. Although this is not a protein chemistry book, it's a great place to start appreciating how proteins do what they do following some elegant design principles.
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