Lehninger principles of biochemistry

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PREFACE With the advent of increasingly robust technologies that provide cellular and organismal views of molecular processes, progress in biochemistry continues apace, providing both new wonders and new challenges. The image on our cover depicts an active spliceosome, one of the largest molecular machines in a eukaryotic cell, and one that is only now yielding to modern structural analysis. It is an example of our current understanding of life at the level of molecular structure. The image is a snapshot from a highly complex set of reactions, in better focus than ever before. But in the cell, this is only one of many steps linked spatially and temporally to many other complex processes that remain to be unraveled and eventually described in future editions. Our goal in this seventh edition of Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, as always, is to strike a balance: to include new and exciting research findings without making the book overwhelming for students. The primary criterion for inclusion of an advance