Principles of Biochemistry, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • Laurence A. Moran University of Toronto
  • Robert A Horton North Carolina State University
  • Gray Scrimgeour University of Toronto
  • Marc Perry University of Toronto

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Title overview

Principles of Biochemistry provides a concise introduction to fundamental concepts of biochemistry. The text focuses on principles and underlying themes of biochemistry to encourage and foster true understanding of the relationship between structure and function, instead of memorization.

Table of contents

  • 1. Biochemistry and the Language of Chemistry
  • 2. The Chemical Foundation of Life: Weak Interactions in an Aqueous Environment
  • 3. The Energetics of Life
  • 4. Nucleic Acids
  • 5. Introduction to Proteins: The Primary Level of Protein Structure
  • 6. The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins
  • 7. Protein Function and Evolution
  • 8. Enzymes: Biological Catalysts
  • 9. Carbohydrates: Sugars, Saccharides, Glycans
  • 10. Lipids, Membranes, and Cellular Transport
  • 11. Chemical Logic of Metabolism
  • 12. Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Glycogen Metabolism, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
  • 13. The Citric Acid Cycle
  • 14. Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and Oxygen Metabolism
  • 15. Photosynthesis
  • 16. Lipid Metabolism
  • 17. Interorgan and Intracellular Coordination of Energy Metabolism in Vertebrates
  • 18. Amino Acid and Nitrogen Metabolism
  • 19. Nucleotide Metabolism
  • 20. Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
  • 21. Genes, Genomes, and Chromosomes
  • 22. DNA Replication
  • 23. DNA Repair, Recombination, and Rearrangement
  • 24. Transcription and Posttranscriptional Processing
  • 25. Information Decoding: Translation and Posttranslational Protein Processing
  • 26. Regulation of Gene Expression

APPENDICES

  • I: ANSWERS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS
  • II: REFERENCES

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