Biochemistry and molecular biology / Despo Papachristodoulou ... [et al.]. -- 6th ed. -- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. – (58.178/E46/6th ed.) |
Contents
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Preface
Learning from this book
Online resources
Contents
Diseases and medically relevant topics
Abbreviations
PART 1
Basic concepts of life
Chapter 1
The basic molecular themes of life
Chapter 2
Cells and viruses
Chapter 3
Energy considerations in biochemistry
PART 2
Structure and function of proteins and membranes
Chapter 4
The structure of proteins
Chapter 5
Methods in protein investigation
Chapter 6
Enzymes
Chapter 7
The cell membrane and membrane proteins
Chapter 8
Muscle contraction, the cytoskeleton, and molecular motors
PART 3
Metabolism and nutrition
Chapter 9
General principles of nutrition
Chapter 10 Food digestion, absorption, and distribution
to the tissues
Chapter 11
The storage fuels: mechanisms of transport, storage, and mobilization of
carbohydrate and fat
Chapter 12 Principles of energy release from food
Chapter 13 Glycolysis, the TCA cycle, and the electron
transport system
Chapter 14 Energy release from fat
Chapter 15 An alternative pathway of glucose oxidation:
the pentose phosphate pathway
Chapter 16 Synthesis of glucose (gluconeogenesis)
Chapter 17 Synthesis of fat and related compounds
Chapter 18 Nitrogen metabolism: amino acid metabolism
Chapter 19 Nitrogen metabolism: nucleotide metabolism
Chapter 20 Mechanisms of metabolic control and their
applications to metabolic integration
Chapter 21 Raising electrons of water back up the energy
scale: photosynthesis
PART 4
Information storage and utilization
Chapter 22 The genome
Chapter 23 DNA synthesis, repair, and recombination
Chapter 24 Gone transcription
Chapter 25 Protein synthesis and controlled protein
breakdown
Chapter 26 Control of gene expression
Chapter 27 Protein sorting and delivery
Chapter 28 Manipulating DNA and genes
PART 5
Cells and tissues
Chapter 29 Cell signalling
Chapter 30 The cell cycle, cell division, cell death, and
cancer
PART 6
Protective mechanisms against disease
Chapter 31
Blood clotting, xenobiotic metabolism, and reactive oxygen species
Chapter 32 The immune system
Answers to problems
Index of diseases and medically relevant
topics
Index