Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction and background. Life -- Aqueous Solutions -- Thermodynamic Principles: A Review -- Biomolecules. Amino Acids -- Nucleic Acids, Gene Expression, and Recombinant DNA Technology -- Techniques of Protein and Nucleic Acid Purifications -- Covalent Structures of Proteins and Nucleic Acids -- Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins -- Protein Folding, Dynamics, and Structural Evolution -- Hemoglobin: Protein Function in Microcosm -- Sugars and Polysaccharides -- Lipids and Membranes -- Mechanisms of enzyme action. Introduction to Enzymes -- Rates of Enzymatic Reactions -- Enzymatic Catalysis -- Metabolism. Introduction to Metabolism -- Glycolysis -- Glycogen Metabolism -- Signal Transduction -- Transport through Membranes -- Citric Acid Cycle -- Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation -- Other Pathways of Carbohydrate Metabolism -- Photosynthesis -- Lipid Metabolism -- Amino Acid Metabolism -- Energy Metabolism: Integration and Organ Specialization -- Nucleotide Metabolism -- Expression and transmission of genetic information. Nucleic Acid Structures -- DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination -- Transcription -- Translation -- Viruses: Paradigms for Cellular Function -- Eukaryotic Gene Expression -- Molecular Physiology.
