Principles and reactions of protein extraction, purification, and characterization: Ahmed, Hafiz

✍ Scribed by Rodney Boyer

• Publisher: The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 32 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1470-8175
• DOI: 10.1002/bmb.2005.494033022443

✦ Synopsis

erally small figures. Compounding this, the smoothed backbone traces or ribbons, and backgrounds, are sometimes embellished with complex arbitrary decorations. Although this is a matter of taste, for me these decorations detract from the main point of a figure-the simple elegance of the fold.

Many figures are offered as stereo pairs-a good thing. However, some fail to convey their main structural message without viewing stereoscopically, and how to accomplish such viewing is neither explained nor mentioned in the index or glossary. Rarely are the structures of proteins annotated with labels or arrows. Some explanations would have been much easier to follow with such annotations, or with schematics of the process. An example is the mechanism of serpins.

In conclusion, any person or course that needs a readable, well-organized, authoritative overview of protein science, at a manageable level of detail (rather than a reference tome), will find this volume to fill the bill quite well.