Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry

Editora: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Autor: D. Nelson
ISBN: 9781429208925
Ano: 2008    Edição: 5
Páginas: 1119

Sinopse: NEW Enzyme Mechanisms: Tipler helps students by giving a clear and accessible presentation of Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms. In response to favourable lecturer feedback, the authors have added additional Mechanism Figures with step-by-step call-outs inside the figures to help students understand the reaction process. The first reaction mechanism, chymotrypsin, serves as the model for how to read and extract information from reaction mechanism diagrams. Each uses a uniform style and pedagogy. Includes also a Primer on Organic Chemistry in Chapter 13.2 (Chemical Logic & Common Biological Reactions). MORE medically relevant examples: Many new medical examples have been added to help students see the relevance of biochemistry to their lives. Connecting concepts across chapters, and building connections through relevant examples, is an important goal in biochemistry courses. To that end, an added running example of diabetes is threaded throughout the text where appropriate, particularly in the metabolism chapters (Part II), with the dual goal of getting students interested and building their understanding through the recurrence of a single example. NEW and MORE End-of-Chapter Problems: New end-ofchapter data analysis problems for each chapter have received overwhelmingly positive reviewer feedback. 25% more end-ofchapter problems have been added to the end of each chapter.