Lehninger Principles of biochemistry

This text is the classic introduction to biochemistry that brings clarity and coherence to a complex discipline, always made fresh by combining the field's definitive advances with the ability to reach students. Thoroughly updated, with new or greatly revised sections, the text also includes new pedagogy and more emphasis on medical relevance.

25 years and still going strong! Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry has been a classroom favourite since its first edition. It is the classic introduction to biochemistry that brings clarity and coherence to an often unwieldy discipline, a textbook on the field's classic core, always made fresh by combining the field's definitive advances with an admirable ability to reach students. In addition to its content updates throughout, the fifth edition also provides updated pedagogy that supports lecturers in addressing key challenges in teaching the biochemistry course.

 INDICE: The Foundations of Biochemistry; PART I: STRUCTURE AND CATALYSIS; Water; Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins; The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins; Protein Function; Enzymes; Carbohydrates and Glycobiology; Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids; DNA-Based Information Technologies; Lipids; Biological Membranes and Transport; Biosignaling; PART II: BIOENERGETICS AND METABOLISM; Principles of Bioenergetics; Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway; Principles of Metabolic Regulation: Glucose and Glycogen; The Citric Acid Cycle; Fatty Acid Catabolism; Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea; Oxidative Phosphorylation and Photophosphorylation; Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria; Lipid Biosynthesis; Biosynthesis of Amino Acids, Nucleotides, and Related Molecules; Hormonal Regulation and Integration of Mammalian Metabolism; PART III. INFORMATION PATHWAYS; Genes and Chromosomes; DNA Metabolism; RNA Metabolism; Protein Metabolism; Regulation of Gene Expression.