Table Of Content

Volume 24 Contents January Editorial Report of Meeting on Perceptions of Biochemistry by the Public, the Press and the Politicians. J K Candlish N—_O Appropriate Transfer of Molecular Technology to Latin America for Public Health and Biomedical Sciences. E Harris, A Belli and N Agabian Peer Tutoring: Can Medical Students Teach Biochemistry? M Carroll Teaching the Urea Cycle. M B Patil and N V Shastri Erratum Stoichiometry of the Water Molecules in Glucose Oxidation Revisited: Inorganic Phosphate Plays a Unique Role as Water in Substrate-Level Phosphorylation. K Horiike, R Miura, T Ishida and M Nozaki Learning What it Means to be a Biochemist: Case Study of a Tutorial on Glycolysis. J Ryder and J T Leach The Use of Michaelis-Menten Kinetics in Cell Biology and Physiology Teaching Laboratories. R Sorensen and N Novak Proposal for a New Regional Organization of Biochemists in Africa. The Federation of African Biochemical Societies Book Review in Brief Straightening Out the Stereochemical Numbering System. V A Mezl Features Section Computer Aided Learning. G R Parslow The Old Technology Still Works... Use of Graphics Workstations to Illustrate Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure. A Description of Three Modelling Experiments Carried out by Second-year Undergraduates. C E Sansom, D A Waller and A J Geddes Problem-based Learning. C A Smith Theoretical Support for the Existence of a Sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase Involved in Chloroplast Photosynthesis Pathway. F Cadet Announcement Book Review Addressing Content in Problem-based Courses: The Learning Issue Matrix. H B White, III Videotape Review Biotechnology Education. R O Jenkins Book Review The Biotechnology Internship Programmes: The Role of Industry in Manpower Training in Hong Kong. J C Tsang, D C Cheung, K Wong and Y L Lo Experimental Section Use of Monoclonal Antibodies in ELISA Assays. J M Johnston, S K Rathmell, M R Wilson and S B Easterbrook-Smith An Experiment on the Denaturation of «-Chymotrypsin by an Anionic Surfactant, Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS). V H Mulimani and J Lalitha A Laboratory Class Experiment Illustrating Basic Principles of DNA cloning and Molecular Biology Techniques. J A Perez-Pons and E Querol An Assay Procedure for Determining the Rate of an Enzyme Reaction Lacking an Optical Signal: Validity of Coupled Enzyme Assays. O P Malhotra, P K Ambasht, P Prabhakar, A K Lal and A M Kayastha The Role of Molecular Biology in Characterisation of «-Thalassaemia. J Howarth, H Waters, K Hyde, S Heath, C Bottrill and J Richards Letters to the Editor Book Reviews Obituary Lexicon Monitor April Editorial 77 Features Section Problem-based Learning. C A Smith 77 Biochemistry in Marine Biotechnology. C Alvarez and D Carillo 78 How Much Biochemistry should a Good Doctor Know? B H Moreland 79 How Much Biochemistry should a Medical Student be Taught?—The Viewpoint of the General Medical Council. R D Cohen 80 How Much Biochemistry should a Good Doctor Know? A Biochemist’s Viewpoint. E J Wood 82 How Much Biochemistry should a Good Doctor Know? An Educationalist’s Perspective. R Dennick ill A New Medical Curriculum at Leicester. T M Harrison The Manchester Medical Programme. K Burdett 90 The New Medical Curriculum at Liverpool University. J Smith 91 Current Position of UK Medical Schools with Respect to Curriculum Changes. B Moreland 92 What is Life? An Extended Review of a Recent Book by L Morgulis and D Sagan. F Vella 94 A Different Approach to the Teaching of Biological Chemistry to Veterinary Medicine Students. V A Rivarola, J R Bergesse and M B Garcia 96 The Use of False Statement-type Questions in Biochemistry Tests. A S Gupthar 98 Using One’s Hands for Naming Optical Isomers and Other Stereochemical Positions. V A Mezl 99 The Steady State Hypothesis in Complex Biological Systems. S Llesuy and E A Lissi 102 Simple and Direct Derivation of Steady-state Rate Equations for Enzyme Catalysed Reactions Involving Two Substrates and Two Products. I G Darvey 106 Computer Aided Learning. G R Parslow 109 Respiratory Control Ratio: A Computer Simulation of Oxidative Phosphorylation. J D Morton, M F Barnes and R F Zyskowski 110 Biotechnology Education. R O Jenkins 112 Biotechnology and Environmental Management. T Hector 112 Books on Biotechnology 114 Experimental Section Restriction Mapping and Gene Analysis. M Simsek 117 Plastic Atomic-Molecular Models—A Key to Stereochemical Structures. R-H Mikelsaar 120 Letter to the Editor 124 Videotape Reviews 125 Book Reviews 126 Lexicon 128 Monitor 129 July Editorial 131 Laboratory Work in Biochemical Education: Purpose and Practice. E J Wood 132 Alternative Modes of Organising Biochemical Laboratory Work. G McKenzie 137 Computer Mediated Learning in Laboratory Classes. F Pamula, G J Wigmore and J F Wheldrake 141 Students’ Bibliographic Research: .Competition Enhances Results. N Engel, G Stekolschik, F Mendive and S Baranzini 143 The Calvin Cycle: a Metabolic Pathway Still Misunderstood. J G Pereto 147 The UFPE MSc Biochemistry Programme in Northeastern Brazil. LC B B Coelho and A M F Souza 149 Minireview: Genetic and Pathophysiological Aspects of Serum Transferrin. N Kilic¢, A S Warsy and M A F El-Hazmi 151 Report: Second International Course on Molecular Biology Approaches for the Study of Plant—Microbe Interactions 153 Features Section Problem-based Learning. C A Smith 154 Thermal Denaturation of an Enzyme—Choice of a Model. C Robert and F Cadet 154 The Inhibition of Studies on Polyphenoloxidase by Cysteine. C Robert and F Cadet 157 Computer Aided Learning. G R Parslow 160 RME/AGEE a Computer Tool for Restriction Enzyme Mapping Training. G lIazzetti and R A Calogero 160 Biotechnology Education. R O Jenkins 164 Constraints to the Implementation of Distance Learning Programmes in Biotechnology and Related Disciplines for Conventional Universities. C K Leach and R O Jenkins 165 Lexicon 169 Erratum 169 Experimental Section Zymography of Extracellular Matrix Proteases. A R Quesada, I Fajardo, D Rodriguez-Agudo, J M Pachon and M A Medina 170 The Shapes of Scatchard Plots for Systems with Two Sets of Binding Sites. A K Bordbar, A A Saboury and A A Moosavi-Movahedi Immunological Exercises for Beginners. R B Ferreira, G Esquivel and A R Teixeira Light-induced Proton Transport through Chloroplast Membranes. J W Ho and E S-M Po Videotape Reviews Book Reviews Monitor October Editorial Beyond Facilitation: The Active Tutor in a Problem-based Course. P K Rangachari and D J Crankshaw Current Statistical Methods for Estimating the K,, and V,,,, of Michaelis-Menten Kinetics. R J Ritchie and T. Prvan Stoichiometry of Glucose Oxidation when Linked to ATP Synthesis. R A Mitchell How Many Water Molecules Produce during the Complete Oxidation of Glucose? Reply to Robert A Mitchell. K Horitike, T Ishida and R Miura Electronic Publishing in Science. Report by D F Shaw Book Review Perspectives from Conducting a Molecular Biology Workshop in Malaysia. L J Abraham and J Whelan Denaturation of Proteins—60 Years On. K Manchester Features Section Problem-based Learning. C A Smith Environmental Biochemistry—A Problem-based Approach. L Jervis and P Morris Problem-solving in molecular biology. J Szeberényi Computer Aided Learning. G R Parslow Software Review. L Kirk Biotechnology Education. R O Jenkins Microbial Cell Culture—A Basic Teaching Program. A H Carvalho, A C Silva, A L Arnaud, E H M Melo, W M Ledingham and J L Lima Filho Videotape Review. F Lloyd Experimental Section Molecular Modeling and Experimental Verification of the Relative Stability of DNA Base Pairs: a Biochemistry Laboratory Experiment. S K Burgess, N H Martin, T L Connelly, W R Reynolds and L D Spiro An Experiment on the Succinylation of Wheat Gluten and its Consequences for pH-Solubility. D Fouques and M-C Ralet A Rapid and Inexpensive Procedure for the Determination of Amylase Activity. VH Mulimani and J Lalitha Spectrofluorimetric Visualisation of the Progress of an Enzymatic Reaction. C Saldanha and J Martins-Silva Book Reviews Monitor