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Online section: Electron-Transport Chains and Their Proton Pumps.
Cited passages: Summary; H+ Ionophores Uncouple Electron Transport from ATP Synthesis; Respiratory Control Normally Restrains Electron Flow Through the Chain. The worker inspected official indexed text; direct Bookshelf access returned a browser challenge.
Additional section: DNA Repair.
Cited passages: Chapter 5, DNA Repair, Without DNA Repair, Spontaneous DNA Damage Would Rapidly Change DNA Sequences; Figures 5-46–5-49 and accompanying discussion. Whole-book authorship applies; no separate section byline is established. NCBI Bookshelf hosts the text. Indexed authored section text and figure captions were inspected; direct access returned a browser challenge.
Additional inspected fourth-edition sections, with no separate chapter bylines or revision dates established: Chapter 14, The Mitochondrion Contains an Outer Membrane, an Inner Membrane, and Two Internal Compartments, Figure 14-8, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26894/; Chapter 12, The Transport of Proteins into Mitochondria and Chloroplasts, opening and Figure 12-22, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26828/. Official indexed text was inspected; direct Bookshelf access returned a browser challenge. The existing whole-book authorship and 2002 publication date apply.
Section of Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. The whole-book authors are Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts and Peter Walter; no independent section-author byline is established. Garland Science published the fourth edition in 2002. NCBI Bookshelf hosts the online text.
Online text: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26837/
Cited passages: Official indexed section text: dideoxy sequencing explanation and Figure 8-36 caption; Figure 8-36 A: normal deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates versus analogues lacking the 3′ hydroxyl group.
Section of Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. Whole-book authors: Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter. No separate chapter author is credited. The 2002 publication date belongs to the whole-book edition. Garland Science publishes the book; NCBI Bookshelf at the National Library of Medicine hosts the online text. No separate section publication or revision date is established.
Online text: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26941/
Cited passages: Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others, Transport from the ER through the Golgi Apparatus: Indexed official text: section opening and whole-book citation metadata; Oligosaccharide Chains Are Processed in the Golgi Apparatus; The Golgi Cisternae Are Organized as a Series of Processing Compartments, Figure 13-28 and substrate-order explanation; Transport Through the Golgi Apparatus May Occur by Vesicular Transport or Cisternal Maturation, Figure 13-30 and comparison of nonexclusive models.
