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Springer Essentials Of Biochemistry 2012 Edition by Herbert J. Fromm Mark Hargrove
This textbook Essentials of Biochemistry is aimed at chemistry and biochemistry undergraduate students and first year biochemistry graduate students. It incorporates the lectures of the authors given to students with a strong chemistry background. An emphasis is placed on metabolism and reaction mechanisms and how they are studied. As the title of the book implies the text lays the basis for an understanding of the fundamentals of biochemistry. Table of contents : The Cell: bacteria plants animals.- Introduction to Biomolecules: amino acids carbohydrates lipids nucleotides.- Macromolecules: Proteins RNA DNA membranes.- Enzymes and mechanisms.- Enzyme Kinetics .- Coenzymes and Vitamins.- Introduction to Metabolism.- Carbohydrate Metabolism A: Monosaccharides.- TCA and Glyoxylate Cycles.- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation.- Carbohydrate Metabolism B: Di-Oligo- and Polysaccharide Metabolism.- Lipid Metabolism: Fatty Acid Synthesis and Degradation.- Amino Acid Metabolism.- Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleotide Metabolism.- Photosynthesis and the Calvin Cycle.- DNA RNA and Protein Metabolism.