Basic Reading for Molecular Biology
1.1 SMALL MOLECULES
1.2 GENES ARE DNA
1.3 CHROMOSOMES
1.4 CLUSTERS AND REPEATS
1.5 CENOMES EVOLVE BOTH BY ACQUIRING NEW SEQUENCES
AND BY REARRANGING EXISTING SEQUENCES
1.6 REPLICATION OF DNA
1.7 DNA REPAIR
1.8 TRANSCRIPTION
1.9 REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
1.10 THE OPERON
1.11 RIBOZYMES HAVE VARIOUS CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES
1.12 DETERMINATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES
1.13 PROTEIN SYNTHETIC APPARATUS
1.14 PROTEIN TRAFFICKING
1.15 CHAPERONES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR
PROTEINFOLDING
1.16 CEIL CYCLE
1.17 APOPTOSIS
1.18 ONCOGENES CODE FOR COMPONENTS OF SIGNAL
TRANSDUCTION CASCADES
1.19 THE LOGIC OF INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING:LESSONS
FROM COMPUTER-BASED"NEURAL NETWORKS"
1.20 IMMUNE DIVERSITY
1.21 NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION
Reading Materials
2.1 THE RNA WORLD: A CRITIQUE
2.2 RNA AND DNA AS CATALYSTS
2.3 RNA INTERFERENCE AND GENE SILENCING:HISTORY AND
OVERVIEW
2.4 PROTEINS SYNTHESIS
2.5 PHOSPHORLATION-DEPENDENT PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AT
THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE
2.6 GENE REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES
2.7 THE CELL CYCLE
2.8 THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION
2.9 APPLICATIONS OF MICROARRAYS
2.10 MODEL ORGANISMS:GERMS, WORMS, WEEDS,
BUGES & RODENTS
2.11 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
2.12 PROTEOMICS AND THE NEW BIOLOGY
2.13 MOLECULAR LINGUISTICS: EXTRACTING INFORMATION
FROM GENE AND PROTEIN SEQUENCES
2.14 BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS
2.15 AIDS AND HIV
2.16 GENE THERAPY
2.17 MAD COW DISEASE
2.18 CONCERN GROWS OVER GENETICALLY MODIFIED
Appendix I
Appendix 11
Reference