He lectured at Sheffield for many years before taking up the chair of.

Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Paul Engel is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at University College Dublin. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. 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. 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. Paul Engel shows how X-ray crystallography has revealed the complex molecular shapes that allow enzymes to function at an extraordinarily sophisticated level. 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 delivers a fine VSI on enzymes to go with other VSIs on chemistry, biology, and medicine. Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction Paul Engel Very Short Introductions.

The book starts off in chapter 1 with lay descriptions of enzymes and why they are useful, raising questions such as ‘What is life’ Chapter 2 then picks up the pace with descriptions of kinetics and the concepts associated with. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes that collectively we recognise as life, from making DNA to digesting food. Enzymes: a very short introduction by Paul Engel Lucy Elphick. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Enzymes are the astonishing, tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction Audible Audiobook Unabridged Paul Engel (Author), Julian Elfer (Narrator), & 1 more 16 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Enzymes are the astonishing tiny molecular machines that make life possible.

Enzymes by Paul Engel