Essential cell biology / Bruce Alberts ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Alberts, Bruce
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BookPublisher: New York : Garland Science, c2004Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).ISBN: 0815334818 (pbk.); 9780815334811; 9780815334804.Subject(s): Cytology | Molecular biology | Biochemistry | Science | Cell physiology | Biology, life sciences | Cells -- ultrastructure | Cellular biology (cytology) | CytogeneticsDDC classification: 571.6 ALB Summary: Cell biology is taught in classrooms around the world to provide students with a firm conceptual grounding in biology. This text provides basic, core knowledge about how cells work and uses colour images and diagrams to emphasize concepts and aid understanding.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Essential Cell Biology is concise and accessible enough for a non-specialist to read and digest. Building on the first edition the new text includes brand new How We Know sections in every chapter to describe how experimental science is done and where knowledge came from.
Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes index.
CD-ROM in pocket perf-bound into book.
Text on inside cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cell biology is taught in classrooms around the world to provide students with a firm conceptual grounding in biology. This text provides basic, core knowledge about how cells work and uses colour images and diagrams to emphasize concepts and aid understanding.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Cells (p. 1)
- Panel 1-1 Light and electron microscopy (p. 8)
- Panel 1-2 Cells: the principal features of animal, plant, and bacterial cells (p. 25)
- How We Know: Life's common mechanisms (p. 30)
- Chapter 2 Chemical Components of Cells (p. 39)
- How We Know: What are macromolecules? (p. 60)
- Panel 2-1 Chemical bonds and groups (p. 66)
- Panel 2-2 The chemical properties of water (p. 68)
- Panel 2-3 An outline of some of the types of sugars (p. 70)
- Panel 2-4 Fatty acids and other lipids (p. 72)
- Panel 2-5 The 20 amino acids found in proteins (p. 74)
- Panel 2-6 A survey of the nucleotides (p. 76)
- Panel 2-7 The principal types of weak noncovalent bonds (p. 78)
- Chapter 3 Energy, Catalysis, and Biosynthesis (p. 83)
- Panel 3-1 Free energy and biological reactions (p. 96)
- How We Know: Using kinetics to model and manipulate metabolic pathways (p. 103)
- Chapter 4 Protein Structure and Function (p. 119)
- Panel 4-1 A few examples of some general protein functions (p. 120)
- How We Know: Probing protein structure (p. 129)
- Panel 4-2 Four different ways of depicting a small protein (p. 132)
- Panel 4-3 Cell breakage and initial fractionation of cell extracts (p. 160)
- Panel 4-4 Protein separation by chromatography (p. 162)
- Panel 4-5 Protein separation by electrophoresis (p. 163)
- Panel 4-6 Making and using antibodies (p. 164)
- Chapter 5 DNA and Chromosomes (p. 169)
- How We Know: Genes are made of DNA (p. 172)
- Chapter 6 DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination (p. 195)
- How We Know: Finding replication origins (p. 198)
- Chapter 7 From DNA to Protein: How Cells Read the Genome (p. 229)
- How We Know: Cracking the genetic code (p. 246)
- Chapter 8 Control of Gene Expression (p. 267)
- How We Know: Gene regulation--the story of eve (p. 282)
- Chapter 9 How Genes and Genomes Evolve (p. 293)
- How We Know: Counting genes (p. 314)
- Chapter 10 Manipulating Genes and Cells (p. 323)
- How We Know: Sequencing the human genome (p. 334)
- Chapter 11 Membrane Structure (p. 365)
- How We Know: Measuring membrane flow (p. 384)
- Chapter 12 Membrane Transport (p. 389)
- How We Know: Squid reveal secrets of membrane excitability (p. 414)
- Chapter 13 How Cells Obtain Energy from Food (p. 427)
- Panel 13-1 Details of the 10 steps of glycolysis (p. 432)
- How We Know: Unraveling the citric acid cycle (p. 442)
- Panel 13-2 The complete citric acid cycle (p. 450)
- Chapter 14 Energy Generation in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts (p. 453)
- How We Know: How chemiosmotic coupling drives ATP synthesis (p. 460)
- Panel 14-1 Redox potentials (p. 471)
- Chapter 15 Intracellular Compartments and Transport (p. 497)
- How We Know: Tracking protein and vesicle transport (p. 520)
- Chapter 16 Cell Communication (p. 533)
- How We Know: Untangling cell signaling pathways (p. 561)
- Chapter 17 Cytoskeleton (p. 573)
- How We Know: Pursuing motor proteins (p. 586)
- Chapter 18 Cell-Cycle Control and Cell Death (p. 611)
- How We Know: Discovery of cyclins and Cdks (p. 618)
- Chapter 19 Cell Division (p. 637)
- Panel 19-1 The principal stages of M phase in an animal cell (p. 642)
- How We Know: Building the mitotic spindle (p. 646)
- Chapter 20 Genetics, Meiosis, and the Molecular Basis of Heredity (p. 659)
- How We Know: Reading genetic linkage maps (p. 682)
- Panel 20-1 Some essentials of classical genetics (p. 685)
- Chapter 21 Tissues and Cancer (p. 697)
- Panel 21-1 The cell types and tissues from which higher plants are constructed (p. 700)
- How We Know: Making sense of the genes that are critical for cancer (p. 734)
- Answers to Questions (p. A:1)
- Glossary (p. G:1)
- Index (p. I:1)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Bruce Alberts received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is President of the National Academy of Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San FranciscoDennis Bray received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a Medical Research Council Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Karen Hopkin received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and is a science writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alexander Johnson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Co-Director of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Julian Lewis received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and is a Principal Scientist at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK
Martin Raff received his M.D. from McGill University and is at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Cell Biology Unit and in the Biology Department at University College London
Keith Roberts received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is Associate Research Director at the John Innes Centre, Norwich
Peter Walter received his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University in New York and is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute