Ebook: Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level (Third Edition)

Content: Introduction -- Introduction to the chemistry of life -- Water -- Biomolecules -- Nucleotides, nucleic acids, and genetic information -- Amino acids -- Proteins: primary structure -- Proteins: three-dimensional structure -- Protein function: myoglobin and hemoglobin, muscle contraction, and antibodies -- Carbohydrates -- Lipids and biological membranes -- Membrane transport -- Enzymes -- Enzymatic catalysis -- Enzyme kinetics, inhibition, and control -- Biochemical signaling -- Metabolism -- Introduction to metabolism -- Glucose catabolism -- Glycogen metabolism and gluconeogenesis -- Citric acid cycle -- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation -- Photosynthesis -- Lipid metabolism -- Amino acid metabolism -- Mammalian fuel metabolism: integration and regulation -- Gene expression and replication -- Nucleotide metabolism -- Nucleic acid structure -- DNA replication, repair, and recombination -- Transcription and RNA processing -- Protein synthesis -- Regulation of gene expression