Introduction to Proteins provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the structure, function, and motion of proteins for students, faculty, and researchers at all levels. The book covers proteins and enzymes across a wide range of contexts and applications, including medical disorders, drugs, toxins, chemical warfare, and animal behavior. Each chapter includes a Summary, Exercies, and References.

New features in the thoroughly-updated second edition include:

A brand-new chapter on enzymatic catalysis

• , describing enzyme biochemistry, classification, kinetics, thermodynamics, mechanisms, and applications in medicine and other industries. These are accompanied by

multiple animations

• of biochemical reactions and mechanisms,

accessible via embedded QR codes

• (which can be viewed by smartphones)

• An in-depth discussion of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)

• A wider-scale description of biochemical and biophysical methods for studying proteins, including fully accessible internet-based resources, such as databases and algorithms

• Animations of protein dynamics and conformational changes, accessible via embedded QR codes

Additional features

• Extensive discussion of the energetics of protein folding, stability and interactions

• A comprehensive view of membrane proteins, with emphasis on structure-function relationship

• Coverage of intrinsically unstructured proteins, providing a complete, realistic view of the proteome and its underlying functions

• Exploration of industrial applications of protein engineering and rational drug design

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  Each chapter includes a Summary, Exercies, and References

• Approximately 300 color images

• Downloadable solutions manual available at www.crcpress.com

For more information, including all presentations, tables, animations, and exercises, as well as a complete teaching course on proteins' structure and function, please visit the author's website: http: //ibis.tau.ac.il/wiki/nir_bental/index.php/Introduction_to_Proteins_Book.

Praise for the first edition

"This book captures, in a very accessible way, a growing body of literature on the structure, function and motion of proteins. This is a superb publication that would be very useful to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and instructors involved in structural biology or biophysics courses or in research on protein structure-function relationships." --David Sheehan, ChemBioChem, 2011

"Introduction to Proteins is an excellent, state-of-the-art choice for students, faculty, or researchers needing a monograph on protein structure. This is an immensely informative, thoroughly researched, up-to-date text, with broad coverage and remarkable depth. Introduction to Proteins would provide an excellent basis for an upper-level or graduate course on protein structure, and a valuable addition to the libraries of professionals interested in this centrally important field." --Eric Martz, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012