Both authors are Emeritus Professors at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and both are former Guggenheim Fellows. Tanford is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). They live in Easingwold, UK.

• CHEMISTRY ; 1. The naming ; 2. Crystallinity, haemaglobin ; 3. The peptide bond ; 4. Proteins are true macromolecules ; 5. Bristling with charges ; 6. Fibrous proteins ; 7. Analytical imperative ; 8. Amino acid sequence ; 9. Subunits and domains ; DETAILED STRUCTURE ; 10. Early approaches to protein folding ; 11. Hydrogen bonds and the alpha-helix ; 12. Irving Langmuir and the hydrophobic factor ; 13. Three-dimensional structure ; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION ; 14. An ancient and many-sided science ; 15. Are enzymes proteins? ; 16. Antibodies ; 17. Colour vision ; 18. Muscle contraction ; 19. Cell membranes ; HOW ARE PROTEINS MADE? ; 20. The link to genetics ; 21. After the double helix: the triple code ; 22. The new alchemy ; NOTES AND REFERENCES ; INDEXES

Review from previous edition anyone interested in proteins will find Nature's Robots an absorbing and often exciting story, as well as a major contribution to scholarship.

Both authors are Emeritus Professors at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and both are former Guggenheim Fellows. Tanford is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). They live in Easingwold, UK.

• CHEMISTRY ; 1. The naming ; 2. Crystallinity, haemaglobin ; 3. The peptide bond ; 4. Proteins are true macromolecules ; 5. Bristling with charges ; 6. Fibrous proteins ; 7. Analytical imperative ; 8. Amino acid sequence ; 9. Subunits and domains ; DETAILED STRUCTURE ; 10. Early approaches to protein folding ; 11. Hydrogen bonds and the alpha-helix ; 12. Irving Langmuir and the hydrophobic factor ; 13. Three-dimensional structure ; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION ; 14. An ancient and many-sided science ; 15. Are enzymes proteins? ; 16. Antibodies ; 17. Colour vision ; 18. Muscle contraction ; 19. Cell membranes ; HOW ARE PROTEINS MADE? ; 20. The link to genetics ; 21. After the double helix: the triple code ; 22. The new alchemy ; NOTES AND REFERENCES ; INDEXES

Review from previous edition anyone interested in proteins will find Nature's Robots an absorbing and often exciting story, as well as a major contribution to scholarship.

Both authors are Emeritus Professors at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and both are former Guggenheim Fellows. Tanford is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). They live in Easingwold, UK.

• CHEMISTRY ; 1. The naming ; 2. Crystallinity, haemaglobin ; 3. The peptide bond ; 4. Proteins are true macromolecules ; 5. Bristling with charges ; 6. Fibrous proteins ; 7. Analytical imperative ; 8. Amino acid sequence ; 9. Subunits and domains ; DETAILED STRUCTURE ; 10. Early approaches to protein folding ; 11. Hydrogen bonds and the alpha-helix ; 12. Irving Langmuir and the hydrophobic factor ; 13. Three-dimensional structure ; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION ; 14. An ancient and many-sided science ; 15. Are enzymes proteins? ; 16. Antibodies ; 17. Colour vision ; 18. Muscle contraction ; 19. Cell membranes ; HOW ARE PROTEINS MADE? ; 20. The link to genetics ; 21. After the double helix: the triple code ; 22. The new alchemy ; NOTES AND REFERENCES ; INDEXES

Review from previous edition anyone interested in proteins will find Nature's Robots an absorbing and often exciting story, as well as a major contribution to scholarship.