Includes glossary and index

Foundations of biochemistry ; Structure and catalysis: water; amino acids, peptides, and proteins; three-dimensional structure of proteins; protein function; enzymes; carbohydrates and glycobiology; nucleotides and nucleic acids; dna-based information technologies; lipids; biological membrane and transport; biosignaling ; Bioenergetics and metabolism: principles of bioenergetics; glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, and the pentose phosphate pathway; principles of metabolic regulation, glucose and glycogen; 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 ; Information pathway: genes and chromosomes; dna metabolism; rna metabolism; protein metabolism; regulation of gene expression ; Appendices: common abbreviations in the biochemical research literature; abbreviated solutions to problems ; Glossary.