Advances in enzymology: volume 57

Advances in Enzymology

Editorial Note: Advances in Enzymology and Enzyme Engineering

since the dawn of time. In fact they are vitally important to the existence of life itself. Civilizations have used enzymes for thousands of years without understanding what they were or how they work. The modern history of enzymes dates back to 1833 when, in the journal Annales de Chemie et de Physique, the French chemists Anselme Payen and Jean-Franois Persoz described the isolation of an amy...

Recent Advances in Radical SAM Enzymology: New Structures and Mechanisms

The radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) superfamily of enzymes catalyzes an amazingly diverse variety of reactions ranging from simple hydrogen abstraction to complicated multistep rearrangements and insertions. The reactions they catalyze are important for a broad range of biological functions, including cofactor and natural product biosynthesis, DNA repair, and tRNA modification. Generally con...

Methods in Enzymology. Volume XXXV, Lipids, Part B

In this and the previous volume on lipids, Vol. XXXIV, Lowenstein has assembled two of the stronger recent volumes in this series. The first volume dealt with the enzymes of lipid synthesis and degradation, general analytical methods, and the preparation of substrates. This new volume is divided into the same sections, although the bulk of the book is concerned with enzymes. I think this is the...

Methods in Enzymology. Volume L. Part C. Complex Carbohydrates

This volume, one of many in this series, is a compendium of technical information about techniques of laboratory analysis and preparation of complex carbohydrates. More than just a laboratory guide, it contains in addition to detailed methods critical information necessary to evaluate and understand those methods. Each section is written by a well-recognized authority in the field. As an exampl...