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Essential Cell Biology
ISBN: 9780815334811 | 0815334818
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Garland Science
Pub. Date: 9/25/2003
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| Introduction to Cells | p. 1 |
| Light and electron microscopy | p. 8 |
| Cells: the principal features of animal, plant, and bacterial cells | p. 25 |
| How We Know: Life's common mechanisms | p. 30 |
| Chemical Components of Cells | p. 39 |
| How We Know: What are macromolecules? | p. 60 |
| Chemical bonds and groups | p. 66 |
| The chemical properties of water | p. 68 |
| An ou... MORE | p. 70 |
| Fatty acids and other lipids | p. 72 |
| The 20 amino acids found in proteins | p. 74 |
| A survey of the nucleotides | p. 76 |
| The principal types of weak noncovalent bonds | p. 78 |
| Energy, Catalysis, and Biosynthesis | p. 83 |
| Free energy and biological reactions | p. 96 |
| How We Know: Using kinetics to model and manipulate metabolic pathways | p. 103 |
| Protein Structure and Function | p. 119 |
| A few examples of some general protein functions | p. 120 |
| How We Know: Probing protein structure | p. 129 |
| Four different ways of depicting a small protein | p. 132 |
| Cell breakage and initial fractionation of cell extracts | p. 160 |
| Protein separation by chromatography | p. 162 |
| Protein separation by electrophoresis | p. 163 |
| Making and using antibodies | p. 164 |
| DNA and Chromosomes | p. 169 |
| How We Know: Genes are made of DNA | p. 172 |
| DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination | p. 195 |
| How We Know: Finding replication origins | p. 198 |
| From DNA to Protein: How Cells Read the Genome | p. 229 |
| How We Know: Cracking the genetic code | p. 246 |
| Control of Gene Expression | p. 267 |
| How We Know: Gene regulation--the story of eve | p. 282 |
| How Genes and Genomes Evolve | p. 293 |
| How We Know: Counting genes | p. 314 |
| Manipulating Genes and Cells | p. 323 |
| How We Know: Sequencing the human genome | p. 334 |
| Membrane Structure | p. 365 |
| How We Know: Measuring membrane flow | p. 384 |
| Membrane Transport | p. 389 |
| How We Know: Squid reveal secrets of membrane excitability | p. 414 |
| How Cells Obtain Energy from Food | p. 427 |
| Details of the 10 steps of glycolysis | p. 432 |
| How We Know: Unraveling the citric acid cycle | p. 442 |
| The complete citric acid cycle | p. 450 |
| Energy Generation in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts | p. 453 |
| How We Know: How chemiosmotic coupling drives ATP synthesis | p. 460 |
| Redox potentials | p. 471 |
| Intracellular Compartments and Transport | p. 497 |
| How We Know: Tracking protein and vesicle transport | p. 520 |
| Cell Communication | p. 533 |
| How We Know: Untangling cell signaling pathways | p. 561 |
| Cytoskeleton | p. 573 |
| How We Know: Pursuing motor proteins | p. 586 |
| Cell-Cycle Control and Cell Death | p. 611 |
| How We Know: Discovery of cyclins and Cdks | p. 618 |
| Cell Division | p. 637 |
| The principal stages of M phase in an animal cell | p. 642 |
| How We Know: Building the mitotic spindle | p. 646 |
| Genetics, Meiosis, and the Molecular Basis of Heredity | p. 659 |
| How We Know: Reading genetic linkage maps | p. 682 |
| Some essentials of classical genetics | p. 685 |
| Tissues and Cancer | p. 697 |
| The cell types and tissues from which higher plants are constructed | p. 700 |
| How We Know: Making sense of the genes that are critical for cancer | p. 734 |
| Answers to Questions | p. A:1 |
| Glossary | p. G:1 |
| Index | p. I:1 |
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Bruce Alberts received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is President of the National Academy of Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco Dennis Bray received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a Medical Research Council Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Karen Hopkin received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and is a science writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts Alexander Johnson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Co-Director of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program at the University of California, San Francisco. Julian Lewis received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and is a Principal Scientist at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK Martin Raff received his M.D. from McGill University and is at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Cell Biology Unit and in the Biology Department at University College London Keith Roberts received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is Associate Research Director at the John Innes Centre, Norwich Peter Walter received his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University in New York and is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
