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PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
CHAPTER 1. NUCLEOTIDES AS TISSUE CONSTITUENTS
II. Historical Development
III. Free Nucleotides of Cells and Tissues
CHAPTER 2. CONFIGURATION AND CONFORMATION OF
NUCLEOSIDES AND NUCLEOTIDES
IV. Base-Sugar Relationships
CHAPTER 3. FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEOTIDES
II. Role of Nucleotides in Energy Metabolism
IV. Group-Transfer Reactions of Nucleotide Coenzymes
V. Nucleotides as Structural Units
VI. Physiological Functions of Nucleotides
VII. Regulatory Functions of Nucleotides
CHAPTER 4. THE THREE LEVELS OF PHOSPHORYLATION
I. Transphosphorylation Mechanisms
II. Nucleoside Monophosphate Kinases
III. Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases
IV. Kinases and the Generation of High-Energy
Phosphoryl Groups
CHAPTER 5. CARBON AND NITROGEN TRANSFER REACTIONS
IN NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
I. Folic Acid Coenzyme Reactions
II. Glutamine Amide Transfer Reactions
III. Aspartate Amino Transfer Reactions and Amide Syntheses
IV. Phosphoribosyl Transfer Reactions
CHAPTER 6. RIBOSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHESIS
II. Direct Phosphorylation of Pentoses
III. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway
IV. Ribose 1-Phosphate Synthesis
V. The Formation of Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate
PART II: PURINE RIBONUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
CHAPTER 7. PURINE BIOSYNTHESIS DE NOVO
I. Introduction and Early History
II. The Reactions of Purine Biosynthesis de Novo
III. Summary of the Pathway
IV. Control of Purine Biosynthesis de Novo
V. Physiological Significance
CHAPTER 8. PURINE RIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS FROM
PURINE BASES AND RIBONUCLEOSIDES
I. Introduction and Early History
II. Purine Phosphoribosyltransferases
III. Purine Ribonucleoside Kinases
IV. Anabolic Role of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase
V. Phosphate Transfer Pathway
VI. Regulation of Purine Nucleotide Synthesis
CHAPTER 9. INTERCONVERSION OF PURINE
RIBONUCLEOTIDES
I. Introduction and Early History
II. Adenylate and Guanylate Synthesis from Inosinate
III. Inosinate Synthesis from Guanylate and Adenylate
V. Function and Operation
V. Function and Operation
CHAPTER 10. CATABOLISM OF PURINE NUCLEOTIDES
II. Catabolic Enzymes of Urie Acid Synthesis
III. Breakdown of Uric Acid
IV. Comparative Aspects of Purine Catabolism
V. Urinary Purines Other than Uric Acid
PART III: PYRIMIDINE RIBONUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
CHAPTER 11. THE DE NOVO PATHWAY OF PYRIMIDINE
NUCLEOTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS
I. Introduction : Historical Development and Precursors
of the Pyrimidine Ring Atoms
II. The Orotate Pathway of Uridylate Synthesis
III. Origin of the Cytidine Phosphates
IV. Regulation of the Orotate Pathway
CHAPTER 12. PYRIMIDINE RIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS
FROM BASES AND RIBONUCLEOSIDES
II. Metabolism of Pyrimidine Bases and Their Ribonucleosides
CHAPTER 13. CATABOLISM OF PYRIMIDINE BASES
II. The Reductive Pathway
IV· The Oxidative Pathway
PART IV:
PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
CHAPTER 14. DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE METABOLISM
II. Deoxyribonucleoside Deamination
III. Deoxy ribonucleoside Phosphorolysis
IV. Sources of Deoxyribose
V· Deoxyribonucleoside Kinases
CHAPTER 15. INTERCONVERSION OF
DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES
II. Formation of Deoxyuridylate
III. Deoxyribonucleotide Kinases
CHAPTER 16. ENZYMATIC REDUCTION OF
RIBONUCLEOTIDES
II. Ribonucleotide Reduction in Escherichia coli
III. Ribonucleotide Reduction in Other Cells
APPENDIX: METABOLISM AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF
PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE ANTIMETABOLITES