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Biochemistry
Christopher K. Mathews, Oregon State University
Kensal E. van Holde, Oregon State University
Kevin G. Ahern, Oregon State University
Table of Contents
I. THE REALM OF BIOCHEMISTRY.
1. The Scope of Biochemistry.
2. The Matrix of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment.
3. The Energetics of Life.
II. MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE OF
LIVING MATTER.
4. Nucleic Acids.
5. Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure.
6. The Three- Dimensional Structure of Proteins.
7. Protein Function and Evolution.
8. Proteins in Motion: Contractile Systems and Molecular Motors.
9. Carbohydrates.
10. Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport.
III. DYNAMICS OF LIFE:
CATALYSIS AND CONTROL OF BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS.
11. Enzymes: Biological
Catalysts.
12. Introduction to Metabolism.
IV. DYNAMICS OF LIFE: ENERGY,
BIOSYNTHESIS, AND UTILIZATION OF PRECURSORS.
13. Carbohydrate Metabolism
I: Anaerobic Processes in Generating Metabolic Energy.
14. Oxidative Processes: Citric Acid Cycle and Pentose Phosphate Pathway.
15. Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism.
16. Carbohydrate Metabolism II: Biosynthesis.
17. Photosynthesis.
18. Lipid Metabolism I: Fatty Acids, Triacylglycerols, and Lipoproteins.
19. Lipid Metabolism II: Membrane Lipids, Steroids, Isoprenoids, and Eicosanoids.
20. Metabolism of Nitrogenous Compounds: Principles of Biosynthesis, Utilization, and
Turnover.
21. Metabolism of Nitrogenous Compounds: Amino Acids, Porphyrins, and Neurotransmitters.
22. Nucleotide Metabolism.
23. Metabolic Coordination, Metabolic Control, and Signal Transduction
V. INFORMATION.
24. Information Copying:
Replication.
25. Information Restructuring: Restriction, Repair, Recombination, Rearrangement, and
Amplification.
26. Information Readout: Transcription.
27. Information Decoding: Translation.
28. Eukaryotic Genes and Their Expression.
Answers to Problems.
Glossary.
Index. 1200 PAGES
