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BIOCHEMISTRY

SECOND EDITION

DONALD VOET, University of Pennsylvania
JUDITH VOET, Swarthmore College
0-471-58651-X, 1264 Pages, Cloth, 1995

Coming Soon-- Voet/Voet/Pratt: Fundamentals of Biochemistry!


Description:

BIOCHEMISTRY, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for serious students of biochemistry that became in its first edition the new world standard in its field. The goal of Donald Voet (an X-Ray crystallographer) and Judith Voet (an enzymologist) in writing this text remains to explain not only what is known about biochemistry, but also how and why we know it.

Since most serious students of biochemistry will take the course several time in their academic careers, the authors have striven to provide the only textbook they will need for the course -- regardless of the level.

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Brief Table Of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
    1. Life
    2. Aqueous Solutions
    3. Thermodynamic Principles: A Review
II. BIOMOLECULES
    4. Amino Acids
    5. Techniques of Protein Purification
    6. Covalent Structures of Proteins
    7. Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins
    8. Protein Folding, Dynamics, and Structural Evolution
    9. Hemoglobin: Protein Function in Microcosm
    10. Sugars and Polysaccharides
    11. Lipids and Membranes
III. MECHANISMS OF ENZYME ACTION
    12. Introduction to Enzymes
    13. Rates of Enzymatic Reactions
    14. Enzymatic Catalysis
IV. METABOLISM
    15. Introduction to Metabolism
    16. Glycolysis
    17. Glycogen Metabolism
    18. Transport Through Membranes
    19. Citric Acid Cycle
    20. Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation
    21. Other Pathways of Carbohydrate Metabolism
    22. Photosynthesis
    23. Lipid Metabolism
    24. Amino Acid Metabolism
    25. Energy Metabolism: Integration and Organ Specialization
    26. Nucleotide Metabolism
V. THE EXPRESSION AND TRANSMISSION OF GENETIC INFORMATION
    27. DNA: The Vehicle of Inheritance
    28. Nucleic Acid Structures and Manipulation
    29. Transcription
    30. Translation
    31. DNA Replication, Repair and Recombination
    32. Viruses: Paradigms for Cellular Functions
    33. Eukaryotic Gene Expression
    34. Molecular Physiology