Textbook of biochemistry : with clinical correlations / edited by Thomas M. Devlin

Includes bibliographical references and index

--Contents Pt. I Structure of Macromolecules 1 Eukaryotic Cell Structure / Thomas M. Devlin 2 DNA and RNA: Composition and Structure / Stephen A. Woski, Francis J. Schmidt 3 Proteins I: Composition and Structure / Richard M. Schultz, Michael N. Liebman Pt. II Transmission of Information 4 DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair / Howard J. Edenberg 5 RNA: Transcription and RNA Processing / Francis J. Schmidt 6 Protein Synthesis: Translation and Posttranslational Modifications / Dohn Glitz 7 Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology / Gerald Soslau 8 Regulation of Gene Expression / Daniel L. Weeks, John E. Donelson Pt. III Functions of Proteins 9 Proteins II: Structure-Function Relationships in Protein Families / Richard M. Schultz, Michael N. Liebman 10 Enzymes: Classification, Kinetics, and Control / J. Lyndal York 11 The Cytochromes P450 and Nitric Oxide Synthases / Richard T. Okita, Bettie Sue Siler Masters 12 Biological Membranes: Structure and Membrane Transport / Thomas M. Devlin Pt. IV Metabolic Pathways and their Control 13 Bioenergetics and Oxidative Metabolism / Diana S. Beattie 14 Carbohydrate Metabolism I: Major Metabolic Pathways and their Control / Robert A. Harris 15 Carbohydrate Metabolism II: Special Pathways and Glycoconjugates / Nancy B. Schwartz 16 Lipid Metabolism: I: Utilization and Storage of Energy in Lipid Form / J. Denis McGarry 17 Lipid Metabolism II: Pathways of Metabolism of Special Lipids / Robert H. Glew 18 Amino Acid Metabolism / Marguerite W. Coomes 19 Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleotide Metabolism / Joseph G. Cory 20 Metabolic Interrelationships / Robert A. Harris, David W. Crabb Pt. V Physiological Processes 21 Biochemistry of Hormones I: Polypeptide Hormones / Gerald Litwack, Thomas J. Schmidt 22 Biochemistry of Hormones II: Steroid Hormones / Gerald Litwack, Thomas J. Schmidt 23 Molecular Cell Biology / Thomas E. Smith 24 Iron and Heme Metabolism / William M. Award, Jr. 25 Digestion and Absorption of Basic Nutritional Constituents / Ulrich Hopfer 26 Principles of Nutrition I: Macronutrients / Stephen G. Chaney 27 Principles of Nutrition II: Micronutrients / Stephen G. Chaney App Review of Organic Chemistry / Caron N. Angstadt Index

Thomas Devlin presents the biochemistry of mammalian cells, relates events at the cellular level to the subsequent physiological processes in the whole animal, and cites examples of human diseases derived from aberrant biochemical processes