STUDEN T C O M P A N I O N
F U N D A M E N T A L S O F
Biochemistry
LIFE AT
THE MOLECULAR
LEVEL
Voet Voet Pratt
F O U R T H E D I T I O N
Akif Uzman Jerry Johnson Joseph Eichberg William Widger
Donald Voet Judith G. Voet Charlotte W. Pratt
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STUDENT COMPANION TO ACCOMPANY
FUNDAMENTALS OF
BIOCHEMISTRY
LIFE AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL
Fourth Edition
Akif Uzman
University of Houston
Jerry Johnson
University of Houston
Joseph Eichberg
University of Houston
William Widger
University of Houston
Donald Voet
University of Pennsylvania
Judith G. Voet
Swarthmore College
Charlotte W. Pratt
Seattle, Washington
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Molecular structures clockwise from top: based on X-ray structures that were respectively determined by Richard
Dickerson and Horace Drew, Caltech; Gerard Bunick, University of Tennessee; Thomas Steitz, Yale University;
Alfonso Mondragón, Northwestern University; Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge, U.K.; Andrew Leslie and John Walker, MRC Laboratoryof Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K.
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