Practical Biochemistry for Colleges

Section Headings and Selected Papers: Enzymes and Enzymology. Some properties of an enzyme: a demonstration experiment with alkaline phosphatase, D F Evered. A simple laboratory experiment to demonstrate transamination, S Dewhurst & I Smallman. Biochemical Techniques. Experiments illustrating gel filtration, J M Wallach. Gel filtration of haemoglobin, H B F Dixon. Metabolism. Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, R W Hanson. Bottled glycolysis, H A Akers & J M Long. Molecular Biology. Analysis of chromatin structure and composition, J E Perez-Ortin et al. Isolation of biologically active mRNA, S Spindler et al. Model Building. Molecular models: paper formulae and pop-up models, B S Brown & E M Evans. The use of paper molecular models as an aid in lectures on oligosaccharide and polysaccharide structures, M Alemany. Clinical Biochemistry. The sucrose content of breakfast cereals, D P Robson & T P Chirpich. The determination of sialic acid - an experiment that demonstrates many important aspects of spectrophotometric assays, R O'Kennedy. Index.