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Chapter 3: Machinery 52 GLOSSARY 54 Protein Folding & Aggregation 56 Shape: Protein Structure 58 Profile: Max Perutz 60 Roads & Rafters: Structural Proteins 62 Motors 64 Transport & Storage 66 Membranes, Messengers & Receptors 68 Making Life Go: Enzymes
Chapter 4: Harvesting Energy 72 GLOSSARY 74 Life's Currency 76 Using Big Carbs 78 Using Small Carbs 80 Long-term Storage & Burning Fats 82 The Central Hub 84 Profile: Hans Krebs 86 ATP From Air 88 Mobilizing the Cell
Chapter 5: Making Life 92 GLOSSARY 94 Burning in Reverse: Photosynthesis 96 Bringing in the Nitrogen 98 Pooling the Amino Acids 100 The Making of the Message Bearers 102 Maintaining the Code 104 Profile: James Watson, Francis Crick & Rosalind Franklin 106 Reading the Book 108 Doctoring Decoding: Epigenetics 110 Finding the Source
Chapter 6: Staying Alive 114 GLOSSARY 116 In & Out: Digestion & Excretion 118 Blood, Breath & Balance 120 Moving 122 Profile: Hugh Huxley 124 Biochemistry on the Brain 1 26 Detox 128 Electrolyte Balance 130 Coordinating the Defence
Chapter 7: In Sickness & Health 134 GLOSSARY 136 Things We Need 138 Staying Fit 140 Progeny & the Pill 142 Maintaining the Right Balance 144 Repelling the Hijackers 146 Profile: Gertrude Elion & George Hitchings 148 When Cells Break Bad 150 Gene Editing
152 Appendices 154 Resources 156 Notes on Contributors 158 Index 160 Acknowledgements mehr
Stephen Contakes is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches courses in inorganic, analytic and physical chemistry. With a background in organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry, his research interests involve the preparation of redox-active hydrogen bonded assemblies and photoactive nanoparticle catalysts for use in pollutant remediation.