Molecular biology

Author: Yan Longfei
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1 The Meaning of Molecular Biology
Section 2 A Brief History of Molecular Biology
Section 3 The Position of Molecular Biology in Life Sciences
Section 4 The Current Status and Prospects of Molecular Biology
Chapter 2 The Material Basis of Life
Section 1 Life as a Product of Material Evolution
Section 2 The Molecular Logic of Life
Section 3 Biological Molecules
Section 4 Strong and Weak Bonds of Biological Molecules
Section 5 Life Systems and Thermodynamics
Section 6 Conformation and Assembly of Biological Macromolecules
Section 7 Interactions Between Proteins and Other Biological Molecules
Chapter 3 Cells
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Comparison Between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
Section 3 Prokaryotic Cells
Section 4 Escherichia coli
Section 5 Eukaryotic Cells
Chapter 4 The Structure of DNA
Section 1 Diversity and Dynamics of DNA Structure
Section 2 Polynucleotide Chains
Section 3 The Double Helix Structure of DNA
Section 4 Polymorphism of A-DNA and B-DNA Structures
Section 5 Z-DNA
Section 6 Denaturation and Renaturation of DNA
Section 7 Shape, Size, and Sequence Organization of DNA
Section 8 Fine Structure of DNA
Section 9 Supercoiled DNA
Section 10 Topoisomerases
Section 11 Structure of Chromatin
Section 12 Some Unusual Structures of DNA Sequences
Section 13 DNA Restriction Maps and Sequence Analysis
Chapter 5 DNA Replication and Repair
Section 1 Overview of DNA Replication
Section 2 DNA Replication Enzymes and Related Proteins
Section 3 DNA Replication in Prokaryotes
Section 4 DNA Replication in Eukaryotes
Section 5 DNA Repair
Chapter 6 DNA Recombination
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Homologous Recombination
Section 3 Site-Specific Recombination
Section 4 Transpositional Recombination
Chapter 7 RNA Synthesis
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Structure and Types of RNA in Prokaryotes
Section 3 Characteristics of RNA-Catalyzed Synthesis
Section 4 RNA Polymerase
Section 5 Promoters
Section 6 RNA-Catalyzed Synthesis
Section 7 Post-Transcriptional Processing of RNA
Section 8 RNA Synthesis in Eukaryotes
Section 9 Self-Slicing and Catalytic RNA
Chapter 8 The Genetic Code
Section 1 Deciphering the Genetic Code
Section 2 Degeneracy and Wobble Hypothesis of the Code
Section 3 Usage Frequency of Codons
Section 4 Start and Stop Codons
Section 5 Mutations in the Genetic Code
Section 6 Changes in the Genetic Code
Section 7 Overlapping Genes and Overlapping Codes
Chapter 9 RNA Translation—Protein Biosynthesis
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Ribosomes and Ribosomal RNA Structure
Section 3 Activation of Amino Acids and Synthesis of Amiyl-tRNA
Section 4 Protein Biosynthesis in Prokaryotes
Section 5 Role of GTP in Protein Synthesis
Section 6 Protein Biosynthesis in Eukaryotes
Section 7 Protein Folding and Post-Translational Modifications of Peptide Chains in Protein Biosynthesis
Section 8 Protein Translocation and Secretion
Chapter 10 Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Adaptation of Bacteria to Nutrients
Section 3 Constitutive Proteins and Regulatory Proteins
Section 4 The Operon Hypothesis
Section 5 Structure of Operator Genes
Section 6 Lac Operon
Section 7 Arabinose Operon
Section 8 Operons for Amino Acid Synthesis
Section 9 Regulation of Gene Expression at the Translation Level
Chapter 11 Viruses
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Structure of Virion Particles
Section 3 Viral Genomes
Section 4 Viral Replication
Section 5 Expression of Viral Genes
Chapter 12 Structure of Eukaryotic Chromosomes and Genomes
Section 1 Structure of Eukaryotic Chromosomes
Section 2 Structure of Eukaryotic Genomes
Section 3 Genomes in Organelles
Section 4 Splicing of Pre-mRNA
Chapter 13 Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes
Section 1 Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Expression
Section 2 Regulation of the Cell Cycle and Growth
Section 3 Genetic Regulation of Development
Chapter 14 Molecular Biology Techniques
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Radioactive Isotope Techniques
Section 3 Extraction and Purification of Nucleic Acids
Section 4 Molecular Hybridization of Nucleic Acids and Artificial Synthesis of DNA
Section 5 Isolation of Genes
Section 6 Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis
Section 7 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Technology and Its Applications
Section 8 Gene Expression and Modification
Section 9 RFLP and RAPD and Their Applications
Index