ABSTRACT

The new edition of Instant Notes in Molecular Biology has been revised and updated to include information on micro RNAs, RNA inhibition, functional genomics, proteomics, imaging, stem cells and bioinformatics. Written in an accessible style, the book will be a highly useful tool for studying molecular biology.

chapter |3 pages

Section A Cells and macromolecules

CLASSIFICATION

chapter |3 pages

SUBCELLULAR

ORGANELLES

chapter |4 pages

MACROMOLECULES

chapter |4 pages

LARGE

MACROMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES

chapter |3 pages

Section B Protein structure

ACIDS

chapter |15 pages

PROTEIN

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

chapter |7 pages

Section C Properties of nucleic acids

chapter |4 pages

CHEMICAL

PROPERTIES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS

chapter |7 pages

SPECTROSCOPIC

THERMAL PROPERTIES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS

part |2 pages

Section D Prokaryotic and eukaryotic

chapter |5 pages

CHROMATIN

STRUCTURE

chapter |5 pages

EUKARYOTIC

CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE

chapter |10 pages

GENOME

COMPLEXITY

chapter |5 pages

Section E DNA replication

REPLICATION OVERVIEW

chapter |8 pages

BACTERIAL DNA

REPLICATION

chapter |5 pages

EUKARYOTIC DNA

REPLICATION

chapter |4 pages

RECOMBINATION

chapter |5 pages

Section G Gene manipulation

CLONING OVERVIEW

chapter |3 pages

PREPARATION

chapter |5 pages

RESTRICTION

ENZYMES AND ELECTROPHORESIS

chapter |7 pages

LIGATION,

TRANSFORMATION RECOMBINANTS

chapter |4 pages

Section H Cloning vectors

chapter |5 pages

BACTERIOPHAGE

VECTORS

chapter |5 pages

COSMIDS, YACS BACS

chapter |6 pages

EUKARYOTIC

VECTORS

chapter |8 pages

Section I Gene libraries and screening

LIBRARIES

chapter |4 pages

SCREENING

PROCEDURES

chapter |5 pages

Section J Analysis and uses of cloned DNA

CLONES

chapter |5 pages

NUCLEIC

chapter |5 pages

POLYMERASE

CHAIN REACTION

chapter |4 pages

ORGANIZATION

GENES

chapter |4 pages

MUTAGENESIS

GENES

chapter |5 pages

APPLICATIONS

chapter |3 pages

Section K Transcription in prokaryotes

PRINCIPLES OF TRANSCRIPTION

part |2 pages

ESCHERICHIA

chapter |3 pages

THE E.

PROMOTER

chapter |14 pages

TRANSCRIPTION, ,

INITIATION ELONGATION AND TERMINATION

chapter |4 pages

TRANSCRIPTIONAL

REGULATION BY ALTERNATIVE FACTORS

part |2 pages

Section M Transcription in eukaryotes M1 The three RNA polymerases: characterization

chapter |4 pages

RNA POL I :

GENES

chapter |4 pages

RNA POL III : 5S tRNA

GENES TRANSCRIPTION

part |2 pages

RNA POL II :

chapter |4 pages

GENERAL RNA POL II

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND INITIATION

chapter |6 pages

Section N Regulation of transcription in eukaryotes

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS

chapter |6 pages

EXAMPLES

TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION

chapter |6 pages

Section O RNA processing and RNPs

PROCESSING AND RIBOSOMES

chapter |4 pages

tRNA RNAS

PROCESSING AND OTHER SMALL

chapter |6 pages

mRNA , hnRNPS snRNPS

PROCESSING

chapter |8 pages

ALTERNATIVE mRNA

PROCESSING

chapter |6 pages

tRNA

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

chapter |4 pages

Section Q Protein

SYNTHESIS

chapter |6 pages

MECHANISM

SYNTHESIS

chapter |4 pages

INITIATION

chapter |6 pages

TRANSLATIONAL TRANSLATIONAL

CONTROL EVENTS

chapter |14 pages

BACTERIOPHAGES

chapter |4 pages

Section S Tumor viruses and oncogenesb

FOUND IN TUMOR VIRUSES

chapter |3 pages

CATEGORIES

chapter |4 pages

TUMOR

SUPPRESSOR GENES

chapter |5 pages

APOPTOSIS

chapter |5 pages

GLOBAL

ANALYSIS

chapter |5 pages

PROTEOMICS

chapter |5 pages

CELL

IMAGING

chapter |5 pages

TRANSGENICS

chapter |10 pages

Section U

BIOINFORMATICS

chapter |5 pages

FURTHER

READING