EC 2.1 - EC 2.3.1 for EC 2.3.2 see Vol. 12

Recent progress on enzyme immobilisation, enzyme production, coenzyme re generation and enzyme engineering has opened up fascinating new fields for the potential application of enzymes in a large range of different areas. As more progress in research and application of enzymes has been made the lack of an up-to-date overview of enzyme molecular properties has become more appar ent. Therefore, we started the development of an enzyme data information sys tem as part of protein-design activities at GBF. The "Enzyme Hand present book book" represents the printed version of this data bank. In future a computer searchable version will be also available. The enzymes in this Handbook are arranged according to the Enzyme Com mission list of enzymes. Some 3000 "different" enzymes will be covered. Fre quently enzymes with very different properties are included under the same EC number. Although we intend to give a representative overview on the char acteristics and variability of each enzyme the Handbook is not a compendium. The reader will have to go to the primary literature for more detailed information. Naturally it is not possible to cover all the numerous literature references for each enzyme (for special enzymes up to 40000) if the data representation is to be concise as is intended.

The objective of the Enzyme Handbook is to provide in a concise form data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. Data of about 3000 enzymes are presently known and their data sheets will be published at a frequency of 200 per quarter. The data sheets are arranged in their EC Number sequence, Vol. 6 containing Oxidoreductases (Class 1.2: Acting on aldehyde or keto-group of donors, Class 1.3: Acting on CH-CH group of donors, Class 1.4: Acting on CH-NH2 group of donors). For each enzyme, systematic and common names are given, information on reaction type, substrate and product spectrum, inhibitors, cofactors, kinetic data, pH and temperature range, origin, purification, molecular data and storage conditions are listed. A reference list completes the data sheet. This collection is an indispensable source of information for researchers applying enzymes in analysis, synthesis and biotechnology.