Book: Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function by Engelbert Buxbaum
This book covers an extremely diverse range of topics with relation to protein structure and function. The topics themselves were extremely fascinating, and the author, Buxbaum, covers these topics with an appropriate level of detail and uses a somewhat conversational, yet professional, voice in his writing (his sense of humor occasionally shines through as well!).
Unfortunately, I did not really enjoy reading this book as much as I had hoped. Just by virtue of the fact that this is a short introduction to protein science, I expected this book to be fascinating and extremely enjoyable. While the piece did prove to be fascinating, the writing was somewhat difficult to decipher at times and the images were lacking in detail and quality. I still really enjoyed this book, though!
It seemed that Buxbaum was not a native speaker of English, so the text had some unconventional spellings and there were an excessive number of grammar mistakes (but many of these mistakes were consistent throughout the book, suggesting that the author was new to the English language, or spoke an unconventional form of English that I am not familiar with within the contiguous United States or England).
The topics were still extremely interesting and the text itself covers many of these in sufficient detail. Overall, if you are looking for a simple, introductory text to develop a broad understanding, then this text would be sufficient. However, if prose and language are part of your criteria for determining which protein science book you would like to read, then I suggest looking elsewhere. Nonetheless, this was an extremely enjoyable read, and multiple facets of protein chemistry and biology were covered in great yet understandable detail. Also, Buxbaum is a leading expert on membrane proteins, which are addressed in this book, so if only for this text's unique and erudite perspective on membrane-associated proteins, it is a worthy read.
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Unfortunately, I did not really enjoy reading this book as much as I had hoped. Just by virtue of the fact that this is a short introduction to protein science, I expected this book to be fascinating and extremely enjoyable. While the piece did prove to be fascinating, the writing was somewhat difficult to decipher at times and the images were lacking in detail and quality. I still really enjoyed this book, though!
It seemed that Buxbaum was not a native speaker of English, so the text had some unconventional spellings and there were an excessive number of grammar mistakes (but many of these mistakes were consistent throughout the book, suggesting that the author was new to the English language, or spoke an unconventional form of English that I am not familiar with within the contiguous United States or England).
The topics were still extremely interesting and the text itself covers many of these in sufficient detail. Overall, if you are looking for a simple, introductory text to develop a broad understanding, then this text would be sufficient. However, if prose and language are part of your criteria for determining which protein science book you would like to read, then I suggest looking elsewhere. Nonetheless, this was an extremely enjoyable read, and multiple facets of protein chemistry and biology were covered in great yet understandable detail. Also, Buxbaum is a leading expert on membrane proteins, which are addressed in this book, so if only for this text's unique and erudite perspective on membrane-associated proteins, it is a worthy read.
If this book looks interesting to you, you can purchase the book through amazon.com here.
For a goodreads.com profile for this book, click here.