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Chapter 2               
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 10
Chapter 11               
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24


Chapter 2

  • Fig. 2-15 -- Titration Curves for Acetic Acid, Phosphate and Ammonia
  • Fig. 2-16 -- Titration of a Titration of a Polyprotic Acid


Chapter 3
  • Fig. 3-29 -- Construction of a Recombinant DNA Molecule
  • Fig. 3-30 -- Cloning with Bacteriophage lambda
  • Fig. 3-33 -- Site-directed Mutagenesis


Chapter 4

Chapter 5
  • Fig. 5-3 -- Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Fig. 5-5 -- Ion-exchange Chromatography
  • Fig. 5-6 -- Gel Filtration Chromatography
  • Fig. 5-15 -- Edman Degradation
  • Fig. 5-16 -- Generating Overlapping Fragments to Determine the Amino Acid Sequence of a Polypeptide


Chapter 6

Chapter 7
  • Fig. 7-7 -- Oxygen Binding Curve of Hemoglobin
  • Fig. 7-9 -- Movements of the Hemoglobin Heme and F Helix during the TR Transition
  • Fig. 7-12 -- The Bohr Effect
  • Fig. 7-14 -- The Effect of BPG and CO2 on Hemoglobin's O2 Dissociation Curve
  • Fig. 7-29 -- Mechanism of Force Generation in Muscle


Chapter 10

Chapter 11
  • Fig. 11-13 -- The Effect of Preferential Transition State Binding
  • Fig. 11-16 -- Chair & Half-chair Conformations
  • Fig. 11-19 -- The Phillips Mechanism for the Lysozyme Reaction


Chapter 12
  • Fig. 12-2 -- The Progress Curves for a Simple Enzyme-catalyzed Reaction
  • Fig. 12-3 -- A Plot of Initial Velocity versus Substrate Concentration for a Simple Enzymatic Reaction
  • Fig. 12-4 -- A Double-reciprocal (Lineweaver-Burk) Plot
  • Fig. 12-7 -- A Lineweaver-Burk Plot for Competitive Inhibition
  • Fig. 12-8 -- A Lineweaver-Burk Plot for Uncompetitive Inhibition
  • Fig. 12-9 -- A Lineweaver-Burk Plot for Mixed Inhibition
  • Fig. 12-10 -- Plot of Velocity versus [Aspartate] for the ATCase Reaction


Chapter 14
  • Fig. 14-1 -- Overview of Glycolysis
  • Fig. 14-5 -- The Enzymatic Mechanism of Class I Aldolase
  • Fig. 14-9 -- The Enzymatic Mechanism of GAPDH
  • Fig. 14-22 -- PFK Activity versus F6P Concentration


Chapter 15
  • Fig. 15-1 -- Overview of Glucose Metabolism
  • Fig. 15-20 -- The Major Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation Systems That Regulate Glycogen Metabolism in Muscle
  • Fig. 15-21 -- Hormonal Control of Glycogen Metabolism
  • Fig. 15-22 -- Comparison of the Pathways of Gluconeogenesis and Glycolysis
  • Fig. 15-27 -- The Transport of PEP and Oxaloacetate from the Mitochondrion to the Cytosol
  • Fig. 15-34 -- The Pathway of Dolichol-PP-oligosaccharide Synthesis


Chapter 16
  • Fig. 16-1 -- Overview of Oxidative Fuel Metabolism
  • Fig. 16-2 -- The Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle
  • Fig. 16-14 -- Regulation of the Citric Acid Cycle
  • Fig. 16-15 -- Amphibolic Functions of the Citric Acid Cycle


Chapter 17
  • Fig. 17-8 -- The Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain
  • Fig. 17-18 -- The Coupling of Electron Transport and ATP Synthesis
  • Fig. 17-21 -- The Binding Change Mechanism for ATP Synthesis
  • Fig. 17-23 -- The Coordinated Control of Glycolysis and the Citric Acid Cycle


Chapter 18

Chapter 19
  • Fig. 19-5 -- A Model for Plasma Triacylglycerol and Cholesterol Transport in Humans
  • Fig. 19-9 -- The Oxidation Pathway of Fatty Acyl-CoA
  • Fig. 19-19 -- A Comparison of Fatty Acid Oxidation and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis
  • Fig. 19-22 -- The Reaction Sequence for the Biosynthesis of Fatty Acids
  • Fig. 19-37 -- LDL Receptor-mediated Endocytosis in Mammalian Cells


Chapter 20
  • Fig. 20-7 -- The Mechanism of PLP-dependent Enzyme-catalyzed Transamination
  • Fig. 20-8 -- The Urea Cycle


Chapter 21

Chapter 22
  • Fig. 22-1 -- The Metabolic Pathway for the de novo Biosynthesis of IMP
  • Fig. 22-4 -- Control of the Purine Biosynthesis Pathway
  • Fig. 22-5 -- The de novo Synthesis of UMP
  • Fig. 22-7 -- Regulation of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis
  • Fig. 22-12 -- The Control Networks for Regulating Deoxyribonucleotide Biosynthesis


Chapter 23
  • Fig. 23-16 -- The UV Absorption Spectrum of Native and Denatured E. coli DNA
  • Fig. 23-17 -- A DNA Melting Curve


Chapter 24
  • Fig. 24-1 -- The Meselson and Stahl Experiment
  • Fig. 24-32 -- The Holliday Model of General Recombination between Homologous DNA Duplexes