Book Information Zubay's Principles of Biochemistry

Author :Geoffrey Louis Zubay , Veer Bala Rastogi, Dr. K.R. Aneja

ISBN: 9789814778022

Copyright: 2017

Number of Pages: 672

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Alkem Quality Edition

Price: USD 29.50

Principles of Biochemistry has been prepared by three distinguished authors of Chemistry/Biochemistry known for

their academic excellence and pedagogical approach in teaching the subject at graduate and post graduate level.

Biochemistry is now considered to be one of the fundamental subjects for various bioscience courses. A number of

Indian universities have begun to include it in their undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The subject of

biochemistry works at molecular level and thus brings to light the hidden secrets of life. The rapid development and

enormous expansion of every phase of biochemistry has not only markedly enriched our knowledge about the

nature of life but has also made biochemistry the language of life. In planning this book, our challenge has been to

incorporate details of all recent developments whilst retaining our original aim, namely to concentrate on those

techniques and principles which underlie practical exercises that undergraduates in all the biological sciences can

expect to encounter in their practical classes and to cover in less detail the more sophisticated techniques that have

made possible the advances they will learn about in their lectures and associated reading.

Students face problems in conceptualizing the subject within a limited time. Most of the students need a book that

is lucidly presented, orderly arranged and profusely illustrated. The present book has been written in simple

language in such a way that a student with very little chemistry background can easily follow the various aspects of

biochemistry presented in the book. The book matches what best is available in the standard textbooks in the

subject including those by Stryer, Devlin, Griffith, and Lehniger in their books on the subject. At the end of the book

glossary of common terms used in biochemistry have been provided. Student activity in the form of review

problems has been provided with each chapter.

Lead Author:

Professor Geoffrey Louis Zubay, who pioneered early studies on gene expression after the discovery of the double

helical structure of DNA and genetic code, died on February 5 in West Palm Beach, FL, where he and his wife

resided since 2011. He was 82 years old. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. He was born in Chicago on

November 15, 1931. Dr. Zubay had a very precocious youth and graduated from the University of Chicago with an

A.B. in Philosophy at the age of seventeen. He received an M.A.in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago

in 1952, and a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1957. He completed three years of post- doctoral study at Kings

college of the University of London, and the Rockefeller Institute in New York. Dr. Zubay then established his own

lab at the Biology Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in 1961. Three years later Dr.

Zubay was recruited to Columbia University where he remained for 41 years. During his tenure at Columbia, Dr.

Zubay’s lab became renowned for the development of several cell-free systems for examining the expression of

genes. This was during a time of great interestin gene expression following elucidation of the structure of DNA and

genetic code. In addition to a long distinguished scientific research that included more than 160 publications, Dr.

Zubay wrote a widely employed textbook in Biochemistry that survived four editions.

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Table of Content: 1. Biochemistry: An Introduction 2. Water 3. Amino Acids 4. Protein Structure and Function 5. Carbohydrates and Glycobiology 6. Lipids 7. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 8. Biological Membranes and Transport 9. Enzymes 10. Biosignaling 11. Bioenergentics 12. Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis and Pentose Phosphate Pathway 13. Citric Acid Cycle 14. Mitochonadria and Oxidative Physphorylation 15. Photosynthesis 16. Photosynthetic Carbohydrate Synthesis 17. Biosynthesis of Amino Acids and Nucleotides 18. Lipid Biosynthesis 19. Amino Acid Oxidation and Production of Urea 20. Hormonal Regulation and Integration of Mannalian Metabolism 21. Genes and Chromosomes 22. DNA Metabolism 23. Transcription 24. Protein Metabolism 25. Regulation of Gene Expression 26. Gene Cloning Glossary Index

He also wrote a Genetics textbook published in 1987. In his later career, his research

interests shifted to the origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. This direction led to

another text Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos, for which there were two

editions published by Academic Press. In the aftermaths of 9/11, Dr. Zubay compiled,

along with other contributing authors, Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and their

weaponization, published by Columbia University Press, Athletically gifted, Dr. Zubay

enjoyed playing basketball with colleagues, swimming daily of the University campus,

and relaxed playing poker with friends. After retirement, Dr. Zubay and his wife

relocated to San Diego, CA where he served for three years as a visiting research

scholar at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla. Dr. Zubay is survived by

his wife of 47 years, Bongsoon, his son Geoffrey Pyong, Director of Neurosurgery

Department at Memorial Hermann-The Woodlands Hospital in Houston TX, his

daughter-in –law, Erin, and three grandchildren, Ryan , Abby, and Geoffrey Mitchell.

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