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essential chemistry
essential chemistry
Atoms, Molecules, and Compounds
Chemical Reactions
Metals
The Periodic Table
States of Matter
Acids and Bases
Biochemistry
Carbon Chemistry
Chemical Bonds
Earth Chemistry
essential chemistry
Biochemistry
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Contents
1 What Is Biochemistry? 1
2 Amino Acids 9
3 Proteins and Nucleic Acids 16
4 Enzymes 31
5 Lipids and Biological Membranes 40
6 Carbohydrates: Energy for
Living Organisms 48
7 Metabolic Pathways: The Roads
to Energy 54
8 Photosynthesis: The Basis of Life on Earth 64
9 The Human Genome Project 73
Periodic Table of the Elements 82
Electron Configurations 84
Table of Atomic Masses 86
Glossary 88
Bibliography 100
Further Reading 101
Photo Credits 105
Index 106
About the Author 112
1
What is
biochemistry?
B iochemistry is the study of the chemistry of life. It seeks to
understand the relationship between the structure and func-
tion of the molecules that make up living organisms. This is no
easy task because of the enormous diversity and complexity of
life processes. There is a broad overlap between biochemistry
and all of the other sciences that study living organisms, from
microorganisms to plants, animals, and human beings. Areas
as diverse as cell and molecular biology, molecular genetics,
physiology, toxicology, drug design, nutrition, forensic science,
and environmental science all use biochemistry techniques and
methods.
Some biochemists try to explain how the molecules that make
up the human body function. They identify the molecules and
determine how the molecules are produced, how they interact with
each other, and the results of the chemical reactions they undergo.
1
biochemistry
Biomolecules
Just as there is a great diversity of living organisms, there is also
a wide variety of molecules essential to life. These biomolecules
are usually classified in four major groups: proteins, nucleic
acids, lipids, and carbohydrates. The groups differ in chemical
structure, reactivity, and function. Proteins are constructed from
compounds called amino acids. Some proteins are structural,
such as those that make up hair and cartilage; some are reactive,
such as the enzymes that carry out the numerous chemical reac-
tions of life. DNA and RNA are nucleic acids, compounds that
carry genetic information and control protein synthesis. They are
among the largest molecules known. Lipids are compounds that
include fats and oils. Carbohydrates include such important com-
pounds as sugars, starch, and cellulose. Within each of the four
main groups of biomolecules are subgroups, classified according
to structure or functionality.
Proteins are one of the major constituents of cells. The study
of proteins includes two important areas of biochemical specializa-
tion, namely protein synthesis and enzymology. Protein synthesis
What Is Biochemistry?
Figure 1.2 The cell is the basic unit of life. Above is a diagram of a eukaryote cell,
the more complex of the two categories of cells. Unlike the more primitive pro-
karyotes, eukaryotes have nuclear membranes and membrane-bound organelles.
study of how biomolecules pass into and out of cells, and signal
transduction, the study of how cells communicate with each other
and produce chemical signals inside cells. No matter what the area
of specialization, biochemistry basically applies the tools of biol-
ogy, chemistry, physics, and mathematics using special techniques,
many of which are summarized in Table 1.1.
Figure 1.3 The round cells are normal red blood cells. The mis-
shapen cell on the left is a sickle cell. Sickle cells clump together and
impair blood circulation and the ability of blood to carry oxygen to
body tissues.
Amino Acids
A mino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the bio-
molecules found in all living organisms. Amino acid mole-
cules can join together to form chains called peptides. Long
peptides, containing more than 50 amino acids, are called poly-
peptides. Poly is from the Greek word that means “many,” there-
fore, a polypeptide is made up of many amino acid chains.
Amino acids all contain carbon (C), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N),
and hydrogen (H).
There are 20 standard amino acids. All share a chemical core
of the same atoms: they all have a carboxyl group (COOH),
an amine group (NH2) (also called the amino group), and a
hydrogen atom attached to the same carbon atom. This car-
bon is called the alpha carbon. Amino acids can be grouped
into families that have similar chemical properties. This is
achieved by attaching different groups, called R groups, to the
alpha carbon. The R groups of the 20 standard amino acids are
listed in the fourth column of Table 2.1. For example, the chemical
formula for alanine (Ala) is C3H7NO2 and the structural formula is
CH3–C H–COOH
|
NH2
Like all other amino acids, the alpha carbon has a bond to a
COOH group and another to a NH2 group. But unlike the others,
12 biochemistry
Figure 2.1 Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. All amino acids have
an alpha carbon linked to an amino group, a carboxylic group, a hydrogen atom,
and an R group.
its R group is CH3. Amino acids are acids because they can
release H+ (hydrogen ions) in water at both the carboxylic and
amino groups.
Water
Two of the four most abundant elements in living systems, hydrogen (H)
and oxygen (O), combine to form water, H2O. Without water there would be
no life as we know it. The human body is largely made up of water. Water
dissolves other life-supporting substances and transports them into and
around cells. It is also a liquid in which important biochemical reactions
take place.
A water molecule is composed of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen
atoms. Each hydrogen atom has one electron available for bonding and each
oxygen atom has six. Hydrogen is bonded to the oxygen by sharing a pair of
electrons. This type of bond where electrons are shared is called a covalent
bond. Thus there are four pairs of electrons surrounding the oxygen atom:
two pairs involved in covalent bonds with hydrogen, and two unshared pairs
on the opposite side of the oxygen atom.
continues
Amino Acids 13
The charged H3O+, which is called a hydronium ion, and OH–, which is
called a hydroxide ion, form stronger H bonds with surrounding water mol-
ecules. The amount of H3O+ will also control the pH of a solution. At pH 7.0,
a solution is neutral—it is neither acid nor basic. At a lower pH (1–6), it has a
lot of H3O+ and is acidic, meaning that it can release H+ or H3O+. At higher pH
(8–14), a solution is basic, meaning that it has little H+ or H3O+ and can accept
more of these ions.
Figure 2.2 Above, two water molecules are linked by a hydrogen bond.
This occurs due to the attraction of the slightly positive hydrogen atoms of
one molecule to the slightly negative oxygen atom of another molecule.
Amino Acids 15
Figure 2.3 In a polypeptide of five amino acids, the bold black C is the alpha car-
bon. The amino acids are linked together by a peptide bond (red atoms) linking the
carboxylic group of one amino acid to the amino group of the next amino acid. The
R group (blue R) can be any sidechain. The Cα-C-N-Cα-C-N-Cα-C-N is the “backbone.”
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