Biochemistry

Inbunden bok. WH Freeman. 2002. 1050 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. // Acknowledgments

There is an old adage that says that you never really learn a subject until you teach it. We now know that you learn a subject even better when you write about it. Preparing the fifth edition of Biochemistry has provided us with a wonderful opportunity to unite our love of biochemistry and teaching and to share our enthusiasm with students throughout the world. Nonetheless, the project has also been a daunting one because so many interesting discoveries have been made since the publication of the fourth edition. The question con-stantly confronted us: What biochemical knowledge is most worth having? Answering this question required attempting to master as much of the new material as possible and then deciding what to include and, even harder, what to exclude

However, we did not start from scratch. We feel both fortunate and in-timidated to be writing the fifth edition of Stryer's Biochemistry. Fortunate, be-cause we had as our starting point the best biochemistry book ever produced. Intimidated, because we had as our starting point the best biochemistry book ever produced, with the challenge of improving it. To the extent that we have succeeded, we have done so because of the help of many people.

Thanks go first and foremost to our students at Johns Hopkins University and Carleton College. Not a word was written or an illustration constructed without the knowledge that bright, engaged students would immediately de-tect vagueness or ambiguity. One of us (JMB) especially thanks the members of the Berg lab who have cheerfully tolerated years of neglect and requests to review drafts of illustrations when they would rather have been discussing their research. Particular thanks go to Dr. Barbara Amann and Kathleen Kolish who helped preserve some order in the midst of chaos. We also thank our colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and Carleton College who supported, advised, instructed, and simply bore with us during this arduous task. One of us (JLT) was graciously awarded a grant from Carleton College to relieve him of some of his academic tasks so that he could focus more fully on the book.

We are also grateful to our colleagues throughout the world who served as reviewers for the new edition. Their thoughtful comments, suggestions, and encouragement have been of immense help to us in maintaining the excellence of the preceding editions. These reviewers are:

Mark Alper

University of California at Berkeley

L. Mario Amzel Johns Hopkins University

Paul Azari Colorado State University

Ruma Banerjee University of Nebraska

Michael Barbush Baker University

Douglas Barrick Johns Hopkins University

Loran L. Bieber Michigan State University

Margaret Brosnan

University of

Newfoundland

Lukas K. Buehler

University of California at San Diego

C. Allen Bush

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tom Cech

Howard Hughes Medical Institute