Chemical Biology of Human Vitamins
$357.40
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2018
Summary
As humans evolved from primordial organisms they lost the capacity to make certain essential molecules. By their very absence in specific pathologies and diseases, the thirteen human vitamins were discovered and their crucial role in metabolism revealed.
This textbook provides a thorough chemocentric view on the key small molecules of life, the human vitamins and their active coenzyme forms. Detailing how their unique chemistries control the interconversion and the flux of hundreds o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788014649 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788014642 |
| Author: | Yi Tang, Christopher T. Walsh |
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Imprint: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 189mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
Yi Tang
Prof Walsh was on the faculty of MIT and Harvard Medical School and is now affiliated with the ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University. Yi Tang is a professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and Chemistry at UCLA. Between them they have published many research and review articles that examine the chemical logic that underlies both primary and secondary metabolic pathways. Among their joint efforts is the recent monograph Natural Product Biosynthesis, Chemical Logic and Enzymatic Machinery (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017).
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