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Protein Science

• Protein Structure and Function, Petsko, G. and Ringe, D. (2004) Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK
Press, Oxford, UK
• Introduction to Protein Structure, Branden, C. and Tooze, J. (1999) 2nd edition, Garland Publishing, New York.  
• Protein Science: Architecture, Function & Genomics Lesk, A. (2004) , Oxford University Press
• Proteins: Structure and Function. Whitford, D. (2005) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Principles of Protein Structure, Schulz, G.E. and Schirmer, R.H. (1979) Springer-Verlag, New York
  This book is a classic, and although 30 years old, the principles are still the same and are concisely and excellently presented here.
• Proteins, Creighton, T.E. (1993) 2nd edition, W.H. Freeman & Co., New York
• Protein Structure - New Approaches to Disease and Therapy, Perutz, M. (1992) W.H. Freeman & Co., New York

Biochemistry

• Biochemistry, Berg, J.M., Tymoczko, J.L. and Stryer, L. (2006) 6th edition, W.H. Freeman & Co., New York
• Biochemistry, Mathews, C.K., van Holde, K.E. and Ahern, K.G. (2000) 3rd edition, Addison Westley Longman Inc. San Franciaco.
• Biochemistry, Voet, D. and Voet J.G. (2004) 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York. An excellent introduction to biochemistry. Although it goes beyond the PPS course, it sets structure and function into context and comes with a useful CD-ROM.

Cell Biology

• Molecular Biology of The Cell, Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K. and Walter, P. (2002) 4th edition, Garland Publishing, New York
(2000) 4th edition, W.H. Freeman & Co., New York
• Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish, Berk, Matsudaira, Kaiser, Kreiger, Scott, Zipursky and Darnell. (2004) 5th edition, W.H. Freeman & Co., New York

These two textbooks are available on line (at NCBI Books). The fifth edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell is out (pub. 2008) but not yet online.

During the course the text will be annotated with references. We will make strenuous efforts to refer to material, usually reviews, that are freely available online. You will receive more guidance on this in section 4. However, we will also refer to some of the classic papers: you are not expected to study these texts. In addition, we will refer from time to time to very recent papers, often in Science or Nature. (Out of these, only Nature is freely available online, but hard copies are often in public libraries, and in your local University library. If students need letters of introduction to their local University libraries we can provide them.) You will not need to study these citations to pass the exam or accomplish the assessments. They may be useful later on in the course when you do your project.