Summary

Describes the high performance liquid chromatography (hplc) method and thoroughly explains and illustrates its use in the analysis of enzymatic activities, rather than its traditional use as a tool for separation. This change in emphasis is particularly attractive to those who wish to make use of the activity of an enzyme as an indicator of cellular function, a determinant of a given stage of differentiation (or dedifferentiation), or even as a measure of gene function. Presentation focuses on the assay of the activity of an enzyme rather than its purification. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the method, beginning with an overview and ending with a detailed summary. The final chapter treats the growing field of assay of multienzyme systems. Includes more than 170 illustrations reproduced from the original research literature.