Cell biology : from molecules to cells / by Martin Poenie. -- preliminary editon -- Dubuque : Kendal Hunt Publishing Company, 2019. – (58.15/P744)

Contents

Chapter 1: Beginnings
1. What Do We Know about the First Living Things?
2. What Were the First Cells Like?
3. The Search for the LUCA Using DNA/RNA Sequencing
4. Prokaryotes
5. Eukaryotes
6. Fractionation and Purification of Organelles from Eukaryotic Cells
Chapter 2: Microscopy
1. The Physics of Light
2. Immunofluorescence: Combining Antibodies with Fluorescence
Chapter 3: Binding and Bonding
1. Basic Chemistry Review: Binding and Bonding
2. Measurement of Binding
3. ATP as the Energy Currency of the Cell
Chapter 4: Proteins
1. Amino Acids, the Building Blocks of Proteins
2. Protein Structure
3. Protein Folding
4. Ubiquitylation, or, What Do You Do if You Can't Fix It?
5. Methods for Protein Analysis
Chapter 5: Enzymes
1. Catalysis
2. Testing to See If Our Model of Enzyme Catalysis Is Correct
3. Extending the Model of Enzyme Catalysis to Include Coupling of a Reaction to an Energy Source
4. Enzyme Regulation
Chapter 6: Lipids
1. Neutral Lipids
2. Building Membranes with Polar Lipids: Glycerophospholipids (Phosphatides) and Sphingolipids
3. Sphingolipids
4. Lipids as Signals