Enzyme Kinetics: Principles and Methods [Hardcover]

Hans Bisswanger (Author), Leonie Bubenheim (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 13, 2002

This is a user-friendly and comprehensive treatise on enzyme kinetics - indispensable for biochemists, biologists, medical scientists, and chemists working with enzymes, from advanced students to experts in academia and industry. Theory and practice are well-balanced, the relation to the biological system is always emphasized. Theoretical aspects are presented in a way which is also comprehensible for the beginner. An extensive methodological part provides the expert with valuable support in planning and performing laboratory experiments.
Contains a CD-ROM with EKI-3, the elaborate and easy-to-use version of the enzyme kinetics practical course.

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"This guideline with its comprehensive information is warmly recommended to students and scientists engaged in enzyme kinetics to solve problems in the field." (Advances in Food Sciences, No.3, 2003)

"…the book is recommended for the most detailed theory and kinetic derivations that I have ever seen in one place." (Biochemistry and Molecular Education, Nov/Dec 2002)

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This new, expanded and updated edition of the user-friendly and comprehensive treatise on enzyme kinetics expertly balances theory and practice. This is an indispensable aid for advanced students and professionals working with enzymes, whether biochemists, biotechnologists, chemical biologists, pharmacologists or bioengineers in academia, industry and clinical research. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH (May 13, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 352730343X
• ISBN-13: 978-3527303434
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,520,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A competent treatment of enzyme kinetics, January 10, 2005

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A. J. Cornish Bowden (Marseilles, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enzyme Kinetics: Principles and Methods (Hardcover)

This is an English translation of a book that has achieved considerable success in its original version, having reached its third edition in German. It is a good, solid account with many merits, and a welcome feature is that it devotes considerable space to experimental methods, around a quarter of the whole book. The arrangement of topics is also somewhat unusual, as the first of the three chapters is devoted to multiple equilibria in proteins rather than with enzyme kinetics as such. Chapter 2, occupying about half of the book, contains the "standard" account of enzyme kinetics. Although none of the mathematics is really demanding, the author makes no concessions, and assumes readers who can cope with the sort of algebra and calculus that the subject needs. For my taste the style is rather heavy, and I suspect that the translator is not a native English-speaker -- or else has tried too hard to preserve the style of the original.