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An Introduction to Metabolism
6.1 The metabolic map: an overview of the complexity of metabolism 6.4 The relationship of free energy to stability, spontaneous change, equilibrium, and work 6.5 How a free-energy gradient keeps metabolism away from equilibrium: a hydraulic analogy 6.6 ATP 6.7 Energy coupling by phosphate transfer 6.8 The ATP cycle 6.9 An energy profile of a reaction 6.10 Enzymes lower the barrier of activation energy 6.12 The catalytic cycle of an enzyme 6.13 Environmental factors affecting enzymes 6.14 Enzyme inhibition 6.15 Allosteric regulation 6.16 Feedback inhibition 6.17 Cooperativity

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