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As always, Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry continues to emphasize the close relationship of biochemistry to the understanding of diseases, their pathology and the practice of medicine. The contents of most chapters have been updated and provide to the reader the most current and pertinent information. Toward that end, we have replaced Chapter 10 “Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,” most of whose programs and topics (for example protein and nucleotide sequence comparisons and in silico approaches in drug design) are available on line or are now common knowledge. Its replacement, new Chapter 10 “Biochemistry of Transition Metals,” incorporates material from several chapters, notably those of blood cells and plasma, which contained extensive content on metal ion adsorption and trafficking, especially of iron and copper. Since approximately a third of all proteins are metalloproteins, new Chapter 10 explicitly addresses the importance and overall pervasiveness of transition metals. Given the overlap with the topics of protein structure and of enzyme reaction mechanisms, new Chapter 10 now follows the three chapters on enzymes as the final chapter in Section II, now renamed Enzymes: Kinetics, Mechanism, Regulation, & Role of Transition Metals.
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