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Gerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in
1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.
Biomolecules
The four main classes of molecules in
biochemistry (often called biomolecules)
are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and
nucleic acids.[34] Many biological
molecules are polymers: in this
terminology, monomers are relatively small
micromolecules that are linked together to
create large macromolecules known as
polymers. When monomers are linked
together to synthesize a biological
polymer, they undergo a process called
dehydration synthesis. Different
macromolecules can assemble in larger
complexes, often needed for biological
activity.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates
Glucose, a
monosaccharide
A molecule of
sucrose (glucose
+ fructose), a
disaccharide
Amylose, a
polysaccharide
made up of
several thousand
glucose units
Lipids
Proteins
Examples of protein structures from the Protein Data
Bank
Nucleic acids
Metabolism
Carbohydrates as energy
source
Glycolysis (anaerobic)
Glucose G6P F6P F1,6BP
HK PGI PFK ALDO
GADP DHAP
Glycolysis
TPI
Gluconeogenesis
In vertebrates, vigorously contracting
skeletal muscles (during weightlifting or
sprinting, for example) do not receive
enough oxygen to meet the energy
demand, and so they shift to anaerobic
metabolism, converting glucose to lactate.
The liver regenerates the glucose, using a
process called gluconeogenesis. This
process is not quite the opposite of
glycolysis, and actually requires three
times the amount of energy gained from
glycolysis (six molecules of ATP are used,
compared to the two gained in glycolysis).
Analogous to the above reactions, the
glucose produced can then undergo
glycolysis in tissues that need energy, be
stored as glycogen (or starch in plants), or
be converted to other monosaccharides or
joined into di- or oligosaccharides. The
combined pathways of glycolysis during
exercise, lactate's crossing via the
bloodstream to the liver, subsequent
gluconeogenesis and release of glucose
into the bloodstream is called the Cori
cycle.[54]
Relationship to other
"molecular-scale" biological
sciences
See also
Book: Biochemistry: An introduction
Lists
See also
Biochemistry (journal)
Biological Chemistry (journal)
Biophysics
Chemical ecology
Computational biomodeling
EC number
Hypothetical types of biochemistry
International Union of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
Metabolome
Metabolomics
Molecular biology
Molecular medicine
Plant biochemistry
Proteolysis
Small molecule
Structural biology
TCA cycle
Notes
a. ^ Fructose is not the only sugar found in
fruits. Glucose and sucrose are also found in
varying quantities in various fruits, and
sometimes exceed the fructose present. For
example, 32% of the edible portion of a date is
glucose, compared with 24% fructose and 8%
sucrose. However, peaches contain more
sucrose (6.66%) than they do fructose (0.93%)
or glucose (1.47%).[63]
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Further reading
Fruton, Joseph S. Proteins, Enzymes, Genes:
The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology. Yale
University Press: New Haven, 1999. ISBN 0-
300-07608-8
Keith Roberts, Martin Raff, Bruce Alberts,
Peter Walter, Julian Lewis and Alexander
Johnson, Molecular Biology of the Cell
4th Edition, Routledge, March, 2002,
hardcover, 1616 pp. ISBN 0-8153-3218-1
3rd Edition, Garland, 1994, ISBN 0-8153-
1620-8
2nd Edition, Garland, 1989, ISBN 0-8240-
3695-6
Kohler, Robert. From Medical Chemistry to
Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical
Discipline. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Maggio, Lauren A.; Willinsky, John M.;
Steinberg, Ryan M.; Mietchen, Daniel; Wass,
Joseph L.; Dong, Ting (2017). "Wikipedia as a
gateway to biomedical research: The relative
distribution and use of citations in the English
Wikipedia" . PLOS ONE. 12 (12): e0190046.
Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1290046M .
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190046 .
PMC 5739466 . PMID 29267345 .
External links
Wikibooks has more on the topic of:
Biochemistry
"Biochemical Society" .
The Virtual Library of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Biochemistry, 5th ed. Full text of Berg,
Tymoczko, and Stryer, courtesy of NCBI.
SystemsX.ch – The Swiss Initiative in
Systems Biology
Full text of Biochemistry by Kevin and
Indira, an introductory biochemistry
textbook.
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