Description
Table of Contents
- Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry
- The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment
- The Energetics of Life
- Nucleic Acids
- Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure
- The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins
- Protein Function and Evolution
- Enzymes: Biological Catalysts
- Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans
- Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport
- Chemical Logic of Metabolism
- Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
- The Citric Acid Cycle
- Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism
- Photosynthesis
- Lipid Metabolism
- Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates
- Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism
- Nucleotide Metabolism
- Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
- Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes
- DNA Replication
- DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement
- Transcription and Post-transcriptional Processing
- Information Decoding: Translation and Post-translational Protein Processing
- Regulation of Gene Expression
