Biochemistry and molecular biology / William H. Elliott and Daphne C. Elliott. — 2nd ed. — Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.—(58.178/E46/2nd ed.) |
Contents
Contents
Part I Introduction to the chemical reactions of the cell
Chapter 1 Chemistry, energy, and metabolism 3
Chapter 2 Enzymes 21
Part 2 Structure of proteins and membranes
Chapter 3 The structure of proteins 33
Chapter 4 The cell membrane: a structure depending only on weak forces 67
Chapter 5 Digestion and absorption of food 97
Chapter 6 Preliminary outline of fuel distribution and utilization by the different tissues of the body 109
Chapter 7 Biochemical mechanisms involved in food transport, storage, and mobilization 117
Chapter 8 Energy release fromn foodstuffs-a preliminary overview 135
Chapter 9 Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport system: reactions involved in these pathways 147
Chapter 10 Energy release from fat 179
Chapter 11 A switch from catabolic to anabolic metabolism-first, the synthesis of fat and related compounds in the body 187
Chapter 12 Synthesis of glucose(gluconeogenesis) 201
Chapter 13 Strategies for metabolic control and their application to carbohydrate and fat metabolism 209
Chapter 14 Why should there be an alternative pathway of glucose oxidation-the pentose phosphate pathway? 235
Chapter 15 Raising electons of water back up the energy scale-photosynthesis 241
Chapter 16 Amino acid metabolism 253
Chapter 17 Cellular disposal of unwanted molecules 267
Chapter 18 Enzymic protective mechanisms in the body 277
Chapter 19 Nucleotide metabolism 287
Part4 Information storage and utilization
Chapter 20 DNA-its structure and arrangement in cells 303
Chapter 21 DNA synthesis and repair 317
Chapter 22 Gene transcription-the first step in the mechanism by which genes direct protein synthesis 343
Chapter 23 Eukaryotic gene transcription and control 357
Chapter Protein syntesis 381
Chapter 25 How are newly synthesized proteins delivered to their correct destinations?- protein targeting 403
Chapter 26 Cell Signalling 423
Chapter 27 The immune system 451
Chapter 28 Viruses and viroids 465
Chapter 29 Gene cloning, recombinat DNA technology, genetic engineering 477
Chapter 30 Molecular biology of cancer 495
Part 5 Transport of oxygen and CO2
Chapter 31 The red blood cell and the role of hemoglobin 507
Part 6 Mechanical work by cells
Chapter 32 Muscle contraction 523
Chapter 33 The cytoskeleton, molecular motors and intracellular transport 535
Answers to problems 555
Figure acknowledgements 571
Index 573