Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Foundations of Biochemistry.- Chapter 2: Water.- Chapter 3: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins.- Chapter 4: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins.- Chapter 5: Protein Function.- Chapter 6: Enzymes.- Chapter 7: Carbohydrates and Glycobiology.- Chapter 8: Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids.- Chapter 9: DNA-Based Information Technologies.- Chapter 10: Lipids.- Chapter 11: Biological Membranes and Transport.- Chapter 12: Biosignaling.- Chapter 13: Bioenergetics and Biochemical Reaction Types.- Chapter 14: Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway.- Chapter 15: Principles of Metabolic Regulation.- Chapter 16: The Citric Acid Cycle.- Chapter 17: Fatty Acid Catabolism.- Chapter 18: Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea.- Chapter 19: Oxidative Phosphorylation and Photophosphorylation Oxidative Phosphorylation.- Chapter 20: Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria.- Chapter 21: Lipid Biosynthesis.- Chapter 22: Biosynthesis of Amino Acids, Nucleotides, and Related Molecules.- Chapter 23: Hormonal Regulation and Integration of Mammalian Metabolism.- Chapter 24: Genes and Chromosomes.- Chapter 25: DNA Metabolism.- Chapter 26: RNA Metabolism.- Chapter 27: Protein Metabolism.- Chapter 28: Regulation of Gene Expression.

About the Author

David L. Nelson is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He is also the Academic Program Director for university's Institute for Cross-college Biology Education.

Michael M. Cox was born in Wilmington, Delaware. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 1974, Cox went to Brandeis University to do his doctoral work with William P. Jencks, and then to Stanford in 1979 for postdoctoral study with I. Robert Lehman. He moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983, and became a full professor of biochemistry in 1992. His research focuses on recombinational DNA repair processes. In addition to the work on this text, Cox is a co-author of four editions of Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. He has received awards for both his teaching and his research, including the 1989 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, and two major teaching awards from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin System. Hobbies include travel, gardening, wine collecting, and assisting in the design of laboratory buildings.