Biochemical Pathways

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Biochemical Pathways is the title of a graphic representation, available in various forms, of the chemical reactions occurring in living beings with the chemical compounds and enzymes involved , other influencing factors and the interlinking of the individual reactions with one another. It was created by the German biochemist Gerhard Michal while working for the Boehringer Mannheim company and first published in 1968 in the form of a wall poster .

Revised and expanded new editions appeared in 1972, 1976, 1992 and 2005. The poster version is distributed free of charge worldwide by Roche Diagnostics , the successor company of Boehringer Mannheim, and has so far reached a total circulation of around 700,000 copies. Since the second edition, “Biochemical Pathways” has consisted of two different posters. The first with a width of around 1.40 meters and a height of around one meter contained the classic overall representation, while the second, in the format 1.15 x 1.00 meters, presented a detailed presentation of the higher molecular metabolic pathways in a single cell. An alphabetically sorted index booklet for the posters makes it easier to find the chemical compounds and enzymes shown.

In 1999, a commercially available book edition was published under the title "Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology". The volume of the work, on which Gerhard Michal worked with over 20 co-authors for around five years, is around 280 pages. A digital version, in which the display is divided into numbered fields, is available online on the World Wide Web via the website of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics .

literature

  • Gerhard Michal: Biochemical Pathways: Biochemistry Atlas. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-86-025239-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roche - Biochemical Pathways. Accessed January 26, 2018