Metabolism, Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis
General
- Biochemistry
Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic - Biochemistry within the
framework of chemical principles and logic. (Henry Jakubowski, College of
St. Benedict/St. John's University)
- The
Biology Project: Biochemistry - Basic tutorial on biochemistry. (University
of Arizona) (Beginner's Level)
- Glycolysis
- Basic introduction to the reactions and pathway of glycolysis.
- The Main Metabolic Pathways
- Map of main metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis, the citric acid cycle,
fatty acid synthesis and oxidation, amino acid metabolism and the urea cycle,
with chemical figures.
- Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry
- Graphical representation of metabolic pathways that are crucial to human
metabolism, including 2-D and 3-D depictions.
- Kimball's
Biology Pages - Mini-essays on a number of biological topics with a lot
of cell biology. (Beginner's Level)
- Cellular
Respiration - Basic information on cellular respiration (mitochondria,
the citric acid cycle, the respiratory chain, the chemiosmotic hypothesis
for ATP synthesis, ATP).
- Metabolism
- Basic introduction to metabolism (catabolism, anabolism and nutrition).
- The Medical Biochemistry
Page - An excellent biochemistry tutorial with information on a broad
range of biochemical pathways. (Michael W. King, Terre Haute Center for Medical
Education, Indiana University School of Medicine)
- MIT Biology
Hypertextbook: Glycolysis and the Kreb's Cycle - Tutorial on glycolysis
and the Kreb's (citric acid, tricarboxylic acid) cycle.
(Beginner's Level)
- On-Line
Biology Book - Comprehensive introduction to biology at the "college
freshman" level by M.J. Farabee. (Beginner's Level)
- The WIT Project - "The WIT
Project attempts to produce metabolic reconstructions for sequenced (or partially
sequenced) genomes." (Argonne National Laboratory)
See also the Enzymes and Proteins:
Biogenesis to Degradation pages.
(Collections of Enzyme
Functional and Nomenclature Data)
Metabolic Pathway Databases (Data Collections on Metabolic Pathways)
- BioCyc - "BioCyc is a collection
of Pathway/Genome Databases. Each database in the BioCyc collection describes
the genome and metabolic pathways of a single organism, with the exception
of the MetaCyc database, which is a reference source on metabolic pathways
from many organisms."
- Biological Biochemical Image Database
- Images of biological pathways, macromolecular structures, gene families
and cellular relationships. (National Institute of Aging)
- ExPASy - Biochemical
Pathways
- Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and
Genomes (KEGG) - Graphical and hypertext-based information on biochemical
pathways, including metabolic and regulatory pathways (for instance, cell
cycle and growth factor signaling).
- Metabolic Database
- Database listing metabolic intermediates and their relationships.
- Molecular
Biology Databases - Enzymes and Pathways - Links to enzyme, metabolic
and signaling pathways databases. (Weizmann Institute of Science, Bioinformatics
Unit)
Also see the Databases and Simulations
section of the Systems Biology page.
(Data Collections on Regulatory Pathways)
Photosynthesis
- An
Introduction to Photosynthesis and Its Applications (Wim Vermas, Arizona
State University) (Beginner's Level)
- MIT Biology Hypertextbook:
Photosynthesis - Tutorial on photosynthesis with an overview of the light
and dark reactions. (Beginner's Level)
- On-Line
Biology Book: Photosynthesis - A tutorial on photosynthesis by M.J. Farabee.
(Beginner's Level)
- Photosynthesis,
Energy and Life - A beginner's guide to photosynthesis.
(Beginner's Level)
- Photosynthesis
Center - Resources in photosynthesis, basic and advanced information,
links to conference, journal and lab sites. (Arizona State University)
- Photosynthetic
Antennas and Reaction Centers: Current Understanding and Prospects for Improvement
- "A brief introduction to the principles, structures and kinetic processes
that take place in natural photosynthetic reaction center complexes is presented."
(Robert Blankenship, Arizona State University)
- The Photosynthetic
Process - An introduction to photosynthesis that "focuses on the
structure of the photosynthetic machinery and the reactions essential for
transforming light energy into chemical energy." (John Whitmarsh and
Govind Jee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Plant Cell Biology - A departmental
Web site with research information, images and movies. Topics covered include
photosynthesis, redox control of protein function in chloroplasts and imaging
of chlorophyll fluorescence. (Lund University, Sweden)
Specific Proteins
Discussion Groups
See also the Discussion Groups section
of the General Biochemistry and Cell Biology page.
Labs Studying