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Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry

Author: Albert L. Lehninger, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox
Publisher: W. H. Freeman, 2008, 1100pp, 5th ed.

This undergraduate textbook describes the structure and function of the major classes of cellular constituents, and explains the physical, chemical, and biological context in which each biomolecule, reaction, and pathway operates.
Table of contents

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