This book explains the following topics: General Principles, Saccharide Structure and
Nomenclature, Evolution of Glycan Diversity, Protein Glycan Interactions,
Exploring the Biological Roles of Glycans, Biosynthesis, Metabolism, and
Function, N Glycans, Proteoglycans and Glycosaminoglycans, Nuclear and
Cytoplasmic Glycosylation, Sialic Acids, Structures Common to Different Types of
Glycans, Glycobiology of Plant Cells, Bacterial Polysaccharides, Proteins That
Recognize Glycans, Microbial Carbohydrate-binding Proteins, Plant Lectins,
Glycans in Genetic Disorders and Disease, Methods and Applications.
Author(s): Ajit
Varki,Richard Cummings, Jeffrey Esko, Hudson Freeze, Gerald Hart and
Jamey Marth
Medical biochemistry is an essential component of curriculum for all
categories of health professionals. This lecture note on Medical biochemistry
integrates and summarizes the essentials of the core subject. Topics covered
includes: Conformation of biomolecules, structure and their relationship to
biological activity, synthesis and degradation of major metabolites, Production
and storage of energy, Biocatalysts and their application, Intercellular
communication by hormones, Molecular events in gene expression and regulation.
Author(s): The Carter Center, The Ethiopia Ministry
of Health
This note covers the following topics: Principles of development in biology, Early embryonic development, Later
embryonic development, Ramifications of developmental biology.
This note covers the following topics: Lipid Structure, Protein
Structure, Carbohydrates/glycans, Dna, Genomics, And Proteomics, Binding,
Transport And Kinetics, Catalysis, Oxidation Or Phosphorylation, Signal
Transduction, Metabolic Pathways.
This lecture note
covers the following topics: Glycolysis is Energy Conversion, Glyceraldehyde
Phosphate Dehydrogenase, Phosphoglycerate Kinase, Phosphoglycerate Mutase,
Enolase, Net Reaction, Maintaining Redox Balance, NAD + Binding, Control of
Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, Formation of Phosphoenopyruvate, Oxaloacetate
Shuttle, High-Energy Phosphate Bonds, Regulation of Glycolysis and
Gluconeogenesis.
This lecture note
covers the following topics: Man As Physiochemical System, The Water
Balance In Man And Solutes, Modifications And Changes Of Water Balance In Man
And Solutes, Cell, The Epithelia And Regulation Of Water Flows, And Product
Solute Secretion, Epitelio Of The Tract: An Area Of Absorption And A Limit Of
Magazine Body, The Kidney: A System For Serving Epithelia Excrete Water,
Electrolytes And Some Other Solutes, Hydrogen Ions Balance And Acid-base
Balance, Physical Basis Of Circulation, Excitable Tissues, Nervous Impulse
Driving, Muscle, A Very Special Tissue Excitable.
This note will discuss
algorithms for some important computational problems in Molecular Biology. In
particular, study problems that are pertinent to the Human Genome Project and to
the so called post Genome era.
This book explains the following topics:
Minor Groove Binding Architectural Proteins: Structure, Function, and DNA
Recognition, Ubiquitin and the Control of Protein Fate in the Secretory and
Endocytic Pathways, Role of Small G Proteins in Yeast Cell Polarization and Wall
Biosynthesis, GCN5 Related N Acetyltransferases: A Structural Overview, Fast
Kinetics and Mechanisms in Protein Folding, Dynamin and its Role in Membrane
Fission, Signaling and Subcellular Targeting by Membrane Binding Domains,
Secretory Protein Trafficking and Organelle Dynamics in Living Cells, Regulation
of Phosphoinositide Specific Phospholipase C, Mechanisms of Viral Interference
with MHC Class I Antigen Processing and Presentation and Horizontal Gene
Transfer in Prokaryotes: Quantification and Classification.
Author(s): National
Center for Biotechnology Information
This book covers the following topics: GenBank: The
Nucleotide Sequence Database, Macromolecular Structure Databases, Querying and
Linking the Data, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) of Nucleotide
Sequence Variation, Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository.
This book focuses on six diverse case studies that share materials or
equipment with the scientific community at large: the American Type Culture
Collection, the multinational coordinated Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Research
Project, the Jackson Laboratory, the Washington Regional Primate Research
Center, the Macromolecular Crystallography Resource at the Cornell High Energy
Synchrotron Source, and the Human Genome Center at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.
Author(s): Kenneth I. Berns, Enriqueta C. Bond, and Frederick J.
Manning
This note covers the following topics: Plant Biology, Origins of
Life, Human Physiology, Human Neurology, Developmental Biology, Freshwater
Ecology, Regulation of Biological Systems, Control of Growth and Development,
Genetics and Evolution and Cell Biology.