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UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN BIOCHEMISTRY 



Optical isomers 30 

 Orbitals 112 

 Organelles 274 

 Organisms 5, 306 

 Organs 181 



Ornithine 25, 158, 244, 245, 309, 311, 

 368 



cycle 309-311 

 L-Ornithine 210 

 Orotic acid 257 

 Orotidine 241, 257 

 Orthophosphoric acid, diesters 74 



esters 62 

 Osides 57-59, 152, 161, 254 

 Osteoblasts 313 

 Oxaloacetate-malate system 201 

 Oxaloacetic acid 13, 203, 204, 214, 



224, 230, 231, 267, 363, 364 

 Oxalosuccinic acid 13, 203 

 Oxalosuccinic decarboxylase 204 

 jS-Oxidation 196 

 Oxidoreductases 162-164 

 Oxido-reduction, potentials 138, 140, 

 141 



reactions 142, 144, 145 

 Oximino succinic acid 363 

 Oxychlorocruorin 118 

 Oxygen 2, 3, 5 



transport 320-322 

 Oxygenation, haemoglobins 296-301, 



317-322, 336 

 Oxyhaemerythrin 1 26 

 Oxyhsemoglobin 116, 117, 295, 336 

 Oxytocin 80, 81 

 Ozonosphere 1, 3 



Palmitic acid 228 

 Palmityl-CoA 253 

 Pancreas, cells 308 

 Pantetheine 259, 260 

 Pantothenic acid 79, 259, 260 



4'-phosphate 72 

 Parahasmatins 114, 115, 117 

 Paramagnetism 113 

 Parathyroid gland, cells 311, 312 

 Pasteur effect 285 

 Pectic acid 90 

 Pectins 90, 369 

 Penicillin G 80 

 Penicillins 80 

 Penicilliiirn 80, 244 



Penicillum charlesii 92 



luteum 92 

 Pentanoic acid 9 

 Pentosans 90 

 Pentose 358 



cycle, see also Hexosemonophosphate 



shunt 191, 193, 255, 356-359 

 phosphates 226, 253 

 Pentoses 241, 268 

 Peptidases 153, 154, 279 

 Peptides, bonds, see Bonds, peptide 

 natural 77-82 

 hormones 80 

 hydrolysis 173 

 insulin 106 

 synthetic 77-78 

 Perhydrophenanthrene 38 

 Peroxidases 46, 120, 121 

 PGA. see 3-Phosphoglyceric acid 

 PGAD. see Phosphoglyceraldehyde- 



dehydrogenase 

 Phasophorbide 122 

 Phaeophytin 122 

 Phalloidin 80 

 Phascolosoma elongatum 120 

 Phenanthrene, natural derivatives 38 

 Phenolase 123, 124 

 complex 302, 303 

 Phenoloxidases 164 

 Phenolpyrrol 43 

 Phenotype 315-316 

 Phenylalanine 28, 210, 213, 219, 222, 

 229, 248, 249, 269 

 degradation 219, 224 

 L-Phenylalanine 210 

 Phenylglucosazone 22 

 Phenylisothiocyanate 104 

 Phenylpyruvic acid 249 

 Phenylthiocarbamylpeptide 104 

 Phosphatases 153, 155-156, 357 

 Phosphates 187, 377 

 acceptors 285 

 cycle 138 



group transfer 188-190 

 Phosphatidic acid 252, 253 

 Phosphatides 276 

 Phosphatidylcholines, see Lecithins 

 Phosphatidylethanolamines, see Cepha- 



lins. 

 L-Phosphatidylserine 74, 75 

 Phosphoamides 63 

 Phosphoarginine 63, 159 



