Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry

by Nelson, David L.; Cox, Michael M.

• ISBN13: 9780716743392
• ISBN10: 0716743396
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-23
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Summary

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Fourth Edition brings clarity and coherence to an often unwieldy discipline, while incorporating the field's most important recent developments and applications.

Table of Contents

The foundations of biochemistry	p. 1
Water	p. 47
Amino acids, peptides, and proteins	p. 75
The three-dimensional structure of proteins	p. 116
Protein function	p. 157
Enzymes	p. 190
Carbohydrates and glycobiology	p. 238
Nucleotides and nucleic acids	p. 273
DNA-based information technologies	p. 306
Lipids	p. 343
Biological membranes and transport	p. 369
Biosignaling	p. 421
Principles of bioenergetics	p. 489
Glycolysis, gluconeogensis, and the pentose phosphate pathway	p. 521
Principles of metabolic regulation : glucose and glycogen	p. 560
The citric acid cycle	p. 601
Fatty acid catabolism	p. 631
Amino acid oxidation and the production of urea	p. 656
Oxidative phosphorylation and photophosphorylation	p. 690
Carbohydrate biosynthesis in plants and bacteria	p. 751
Lipid biosynthesis	p. 787
Biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotides, and related molecules	p. 833
Hormonal regulation and integration of mammalian metabolism	p. 881
Genes and chromosomes	p. 923
DNA metabolism	p. 948
RNA metabolism	p. 995
Protein metabolism	p. 1034
Regulation of gene expression	p. 1081
Common abbreviations in the biochemical research literature
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