Essentials of Biochemistry

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This textbook, Essentials of Biochemistry is aimed at chemistry and biochemistry undergraduate students and first year biochemistry graduate students. It incorporates the lectures of the authors given to students with a strong chemistry background. An emphasis is placed on metabolism and reaction mechanisms and how they are studied. As the title of the book implies, the text lays the basis for an understanding of the fundamentals of biochemistry.

Author(s): Herbert J. Fromm, Mark Hargrove (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2012

Language: English
Pages: 364
Tags: Biochemistry, general; Bioorganic Chemistry

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Cell and Its Components....Pages 1-4
Introduction to Biomolecules....Pages 5-34
Protein Structure and Function....Pages 35-52
Enzymes....Pages 53-80
Enzyme Kinetics....Pages 81-122
Coenzymes and Vitamins....Pages 123-148
Introduction to Metabolism....Pages 149-161
Carbohydrate Metabolism A: Glycolysis and Gluconeogenesis....Pages 163-204
The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle....Pages 205-222
Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation....Pages 223-238
Carbohydrate Metabolism B: Di-, Oligo-, and Polysaccharide Synthesis and Degradation....Pages 239-256
Lipid Metabolism....Pages 257-278
Amino Acid Metabolism....Pages 279-292
Nucleotide Metabolism....Pages 293-315
Photosynthesis....Pages 317-329
DNA, RNA, and Protein Metabolism....Pages 331-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-364