Amino Acids and Peptides
Amino Acids and Peptides
£74.99
GBPThis text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in chemistry and biochemistry studying amino acids and peptides. The authors concentrate on amino acids and peptides without detailed discussions of proteins, although the book gives all the essential background chemistry, including sequence determination, synthesis and spectroscopic methods, to enable the reader to appreciate protein behaviour at the molecular level. The approach is intended to encourage the reader to cross classical boundaries, as in the later chapters on the biological roles of amino acids and the design of peptide-based drugs. For example, there is a section on the enzyme-catalysed synthesis of peptides, with suitable examples, an area often neglected in texts describing peptide synthesis. This modern text will be of value in the amino acid, peptide and protein field, to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and research workers.
- Approach suitable for both chemists and biochemists
- Much of the material in the book is directly relevant to proteins as well as amino acids and peptides
- Emphasis on analytical methods and their applications
Reviews & endorsements
'Any applied scientist who needs to know more about the underlying chemistry of amino acids and peptides need look no further than this concise little text … I wholeheartedly recommend it.' Food Chemistry
'As a whole, the book can be recommended to students and newcomers to peptide chemistry.' Angewandte Chemie
'… a useful adjunct to advanced undergraduate courses looking for a text.' European Peptide Society Newsletter
Product details
October 1998Paperback
9780521468275
244 pages
246 × 174 × 15 mm
0.405kg
192 b/w illus. 10 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Peptide conformations
- 3. Physicochemical properties of amino acids and peptides
- 4. Reactions and analytical methods for amino acids and peptides
- 5. Determination of primary structure of peptides
- 6. Synthesis of amino acids
- 7. Synthesis of peptides
- 8. Biological roles of amino acids and peptides
- 9. Some aspects of amino acid and peptide drug design
