| Contents Notes |
Ch. 1. Eukaryotic cell structure -- Ch. 2. DNA and RNA: composition and structure -- Ch. 3. Proteins I: composition and structure -- Ch. 4. DNA replication, recombination, and repair -- Ch. 5. RNA: transcription and RNA processing -- Ch. 6. Protein synthesis; translation and posttranslational modifications -- Ch. 7. Recombinant DNA and biotechnology -- Ch. 8. Regulation of gene expression -- Ch. 9. Proteins II: structure-function relationships in protein families -- Ch. 10. Enzymes: classification, kinetics, and control -- Ch. 11. The cytochromes P450 and nitric oxide synthases -- Ch. 12. Biological membranes: structure and membrane transport -- Ch. 13. Bioenergetics and oxidative metabolism -- Ch. 14. Carbohydrate metabolism I: major metabolic pathways and their control -- Ch. 15. Carbohydrate metabolism II: special pathways and glycoconjugates -- Ch. 16. Lipid metabolism I: utilization and storage of energy in lipid form -- Ch. 17. Lipid metabolism II: pathways of metabolism of special lipids -- Ch. 18. Amino acid metabolism -- Ch. 19. Purine and pyrimidine nucleotide metabolism -- Ch. 20. Metabolic interrelationships -- Ch. 21. Biochemistry of hormones I: polypeptide hormones -- Ch. 22. Biochemistry of hormones II: steroid hormones -- Ch. 23. Molecular cell biology -- Ch 24. Iron and heme metabolism -- Ch. 25. Digestion and absorption of basic nutritional constituents -- Ch. 26. Principles of nutrition I: macronutrients -- Ch. 27. Principles of nutrition II: micronutrients. 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. |
