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CRC Handbook
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Nucleic Acids—Volume I
Editor
Gerald D. Fasman, Ph.D.
Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry
Graduate Department of Biochemistry
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
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Lipids, carbohydrates, steriods.
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Handbook
of
Biochemistry
and
Molecular Biology
3rd Edition
Nucleic Acids
Volume I
Editor
Gerald D. Fasman, Ph. D.
Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry
Graduate Department of Biochemistry
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
The following is a list of the four major sections of the Handbook,
each consisting of one or more volumes
Proteins — Amino Acids, Peptides, Polypeptides, and Proteins
Nucleic, Acids — Purines, Pyrimidines, Nucleotides, Oligonucleotides,
tRNA, DNA, RNA
Lipids, Carbohydrates, Steroids
Physical and Chemical Data, Miscellaneous — Ion Exchange, Chromatog-
raphy, Buffers, Miscellaneous, e.g., Vitamins
ADVISORY BOARD
Gerald D. Fasman
Editor
Herbert A. Sober (deceased)
Consulting Editor
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Lawrence Levine Lincoln Road, High Wycombe
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Brandeis University
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Biochemistry Bangalore
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