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.