Part I Foundations
Chapter 1 Studying the Molecules of Life
Chapter 2 DNA: The Repository of Biological Information
Chapter 3 The Chemical Basis of Information Molecules
Chapter 4 Protein Structure
Chapter 5 Protein Function
Part II Nucleic Acid Structure and Methods
Chapter 6 DNA and RNA Structure
Chapter 7 Studying Genes
Chapter 8 Genomes, Transcriptomes, and Proteomes
Chapter 9 Topology: Functional Deformations of DNA
Chapter 10 Nucleosomes, Chromatin, and Chromosome Structure
Part III Information Transfer
Chapter 11 DNA Replication
Chapter 12 DNA Mutation and Repair
Chapter 13 Recombinational DNA Repair and Homologous Recombination
Chapter 14 Site-Specific Recombination and Transposition
Chapter 15 DNA-Dependent Synthesis of RNA
Chapter 16 RNA Processing
Chapter 17 The Genetic Code
Chapter 18 Protein Synthesis
Part IV Regulation
Chapter 19 Regulating the Flow of Information
Chapter 20 The Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria
Chapter 21 The Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes
Chapter 22 The Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes
Appendix: Model Organisms
Glossary
Solutions
Index