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Overview
Practical Enzyme Kinetics provides a practical how-to guide for beginning students, technicians, and non-specialists for evaluating enzyme kinetics using common software packages to perform easy enzymatic analyses.Synopsis
In a complement to rather than replacement for authoritative treatises on enzyme kinetics, Marangoni (food and soft materials, U. of Guelph, Ontario) emphasizes understanding the principles, and knowing how to use mathematical models to describe the catalytic function of an enzyme. He diverges from conventional treatments by exploring how models are arrived at, what their limitations are, and how they can be used in a practical fashion to analyze enzyme kinetic data. The use of computers having made linear transformation unnecessary, he relies on nonlinear regression techniques, especially to study the pH effects of catalytic activity and multi-substrate enzymes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Editorials
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“…a useful book as an introduction to the topic…complements existing authorative treatments in a concise way...” (Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture, Vol.85, No.1, 15 January 2005)"...a concise introduction to enzyme kinetics...recommended..." (Choice, Vol. 40, No. 9, May 2003)
"...extremely useful...particularly...the applications and practical examples to demonstrate the mathematical handling of experimental data..." (Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2003)
"...a valuable companion for everyone seeking a quick overview of the theory of enzyme kinetics." (Angewandte Chemie International Edition , Vol. 42, 2003)
"...a useful manual for the experienced researcher and the developing enzymologist." (Journal of Food Quality, Vol. 26)
"...an innovative approach to the field of enzyme kinetic modeling, model transformation, and model analysis...a valuable reference for practitioners in this field." (SIM News, Vol. 53, No. 3, May/June 2003)
"...presents a new way of looking at an old subject... (Angewandte Chemie, 2003)
"...the approach is quite mathematical and will appeal to the reader versed in mathematics and kinetics..." (ChemBioChem, Vol 4(5), 2003)