Ebook: Biochemistry

Content: Molecular components of cells. The facts of life: chemistry is the logic of biological phenomena -- Water : the medium of life -- Thermodynamics of biological systems -- Amino acids -- Proteins: their primary structure and biological functions -- Proteins: secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure -- Carbohydrates and glyco-conjugates of the cell surfaces -- Lipids -- Membranes and membrane transport -- Nucleotides and nucleic acids -- Structure of nucleic acids -- Recombinant DNA: cloning and creation of chimeric genes -- Protein dynamics. Enzymes- kinetics and specificity -- Mechanisms of enzyme action -- Enzyme regulation -- Molecular motors -- Metabolism and its regulation. Metabolism: an overview -Glycolysis -- The tricarboxylic acid cycle -- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation -- Photosynthesis -- Gluconeogenesis, glycogen metabolism, and the pentose phosphate pathway -- Fatty acid catabolism -- Lipid biosynthesis -- Nitrogen acquisition and amino acid metabolism -- Synthesis and degradation of nucleotides -- Metabolic integration and organ specialization -- Information transfer. DNA metabolism : Replication, recombination and repair -- Transcription and the regulation of gene expression -- Protein synthesis -completing the protein life cycle: Folding processing and degradation -- The reception and transmission of extracellular information