Lehninger principles of biochemistry / David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foundations of biochemistry -- Structure and catalysis: Water Amino acids, peptides, and proteins Three-dimensional structure of proteins Protein function Enzymes Carbohydrates and glycobiology Nucleotides and nucleic acids DNA-based information technologies Lipids Biological membrane and transport Biosignaling -- Bioenergetics and metabolism: Principles of Bioenergetics Glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, and the pentose phosphate pathway Principles of metabolic regulation, glucose and glycogen Citric acid cycle Fatty acid catabolism Amino acid oxidation and the production of urea Oxidative phosphorylation and photophosphorylation Carbohydrate biosynthesis in plants and bacteria Lipid biosynthesis Biosynthesis of amino acids, Nucleotides, and related molecules Hormonal regulation and integration of mammalian metabolism -- Information pathway: Genes and chromosomes DNA metabolism RNA metabolism Protein metabolism Regulation of gene expression -- Appendices: Common abbreviations in the biochemical research literature Abbreviated solutions to problems -- Glossary

New edition of what is often considered the single best text on biochemistry, focusing on communicating to students the fundamentals of biochemistry in a way that reflects the field as it is understood today. Major recent advances covered range from the draft sequence of the human genome to elucidation of the high-resolution structure of the ribosome