CHAPTER 1 STRUCTURES & FUNCTIONS OF PROTEINS 1 AMINO ACIDS & PEPTIDES 2 PROTEINS: PRIMARY STRUCTURE 3 PROTEINS: HIGHER ORDERS OF STRUCTURE 4 PROTEINS: MYOGLOBIN & HEMOGLOBIN CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS 1 CHEMICAL COMPONENTS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS 2 DNA CARRIES THE GENETIC INFORMATION 3 CHEMICAL NATURE OF RNA DIFFERS FROM THAT OF DNA 4 ESSENCIAL PROPERTIES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS 5 BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ENZYME 1 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF ENZYME 2 MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ENZYMES AND COENZYMES 3 KINETICS OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONS 4 REGULATION OF ENZYME ACTIVITIES CHAPTER 4 METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES 1 CARBOHYDRATES & ITS DIGESTION/ABSORPTION 2 GLYCOLYSIS 3 AEROBIC OXIDATION OF GLUCOSE 4 PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY & OTHER PATHWAYS OF HEXOSE METABOLISM 5 METABOLISM OF GLYCOGEN 6 GLUCONEOGENESIS & THE CONTROL OF BLOOD GLUCOSE CHAPTER 5 METABOLISM OF LIPIDS 1 LIPIDS OF PHYSIOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE 2 OXIDATION OF FATTY ACIDS 3 BIOSYNTHESIS OF FATTY ACIDS 4 METABOLISM OF TRIGLYCERIDES 5 METABOLISM OF CHOLESTEROL 6 METABOLISM OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS 7 LIPID TRANSPORT & STORAGE CHAPTER 6 BIOENERGETICS 1 BIOENERGETICS: THE ROLE OF ATP 2 BIOLOGIC OXIDATION 3 THE MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY CHAIN & OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION CHAPTER 7 METABOLISM OF AMINO ACID 1 THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE, DIGESTION & ABSORPTION OF PROTEIN 2 CATABOLISM OF PROTEINS & AMINO ACIDS 3 CATABOLISM OF THE CARBON SKELETONS OF AMINO ACIDS 4 CONVERSION OF AMINO ACIDS TO SPECILIZED PRODUCTS CHAPTER 8 METABOLISM OF PURINE & PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES 1 BIOSYNTHESIS OF PURINE NUCLEOTIDES 2 DEGRADATION OF PURINE NUCLEOTIDES 3 BIOSYNTHESIS OF PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES 4 CATABOLISM OF PYRIMIDINES PRODUCES WATER-SOLUBLE METABOLITES CHAPTER 9 DNA REPLICATION & REPAIR 1 DNA REPLICATION 2 DNA REPAIR CHAPTER 10 RNA SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING & MODIFICATION 1 RNA SYNTHESIS 2 RNA PROCESSING & MODIFICATION CHAPTER 11 REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE 1 OUTLINE OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION 2 GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION IN PROKARYOTIC 3 GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES CHAPTER 12 PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE 1 SYSTEM OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS 2 PROTEIN SYNTHESIS CAN BE DESCRIBED IN THREE PHASES: INITIATION, ELONGA TION & TERMINATION 3 BIOMEDICINE SIGNIFICANCY OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS 4 INTRACELLULAR TRAFFIC & SORTING OF PROTEINS 5 PROTEIN FOLDING AND DEGRA- DATION AS WELL AS ASSAMBLY OF MEMBRANCE CHAPTER 13 ESSENCIAL TECHNIQUES FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1 RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY INVOLVES ISOLATION AND MANIPULATION OF DNA 2 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY ARE NUMEROUS CHAPTER 14 BIOCHEMISTRY OF EXTRACELLULAR & INTRACELLULAR COMMUNI-CATION 1 MEMBRANES: STRUCTURE & FUNCTION 2 THE DIVERSITY OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 3 HORMONE ACTION & SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION CHAPTER 15 NUTRIENTS: VITAMINS & MINERALS 1 LIPID-SOLUBLE VITAMINS 2 WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMINS CHAPTER 16 FREE RADICALS AND ANTIOXIDANT NUTRIENTS 1 FREE RADICALS 2 ANTIOXIDANT NUTRIENTS CHAPTER 17 GLYCOPROTEINS 1 OVERVIEW OF GLYCOPROTEIN 2 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GLYCAN IN GLYCOPROTEIN CHAPTER 18 THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX 1 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF COLLAGEN & ELASTIN 2 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF FIBRONECTIN & LAMIN 3 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS & PROTEOGLYCANS 4 BONE AND CARTILAGE CHAPTER 19 PLASMA PROTEINS & IMMUNOGLOBULINS 1 THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MAJOR PLASMA PROTEINS 2 PLASMA PROTEINS INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING IRON HOMEOSTASIS 3 PLASMA IMMUNOGLOBULINS CHAPTER 20 METABOLISM OF XENOBIOTICS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BIOTRANSFORMATION CHAPTER 21 CANCER: AN OVERVIEW 1 INTRODUCTION 2 ONCOGENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES AND GROWTH FACTORS 3 THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF TUMORIGENESIS CHINESE-ENGLISH GLOSSARY