Typos in Berg Biochem 5th Edition

These are typos I have found in the 5th edition of the Biochemistry text by Berg, Tymoczko, and Stryer (5th edition). I believe that at some point these will be corrected, as Freeman is aware of them. If you find other mistakes, especially in homework answers, please let me know.

deis@rci.rutgers.edu

Please look at the back of the title page of your copy of the book. It should say "About the cover" at the top. If it says "Second printing 2002" near the bottom of that page, then some of these typos have been fixed. Those are marked with two asterisks below. Other typos were fixed in the "Third printing" just out. Those are marked "*+*". Most typos are fixed in the third printing, but some remain.

• xiii -- *+*San Fransisco -> Francisco

• xix -- **close parenthesis Ch 7 (including Bioinformatics

• 21 -- *+*Futhermore -> Furthermore

• 35 -- *+*Fig 2.22 caption "migrograph" -> micrograph

• 38 -- *+*controlling ^ DNA replication -> insert "eukaryotic"

• 64 -- Anfinsen P not listed in index

• 71 -- **Fig 3.60 caption "Ser-Try-Gly"-> Try should be Tyr

• 85 -- **Fig 4.11 reverse "High pH" and "Low pH" in figure

• 88 -- *+*Table 4.2, Concanavlin A -> Concanavalin A

• 109 -- **last line "revolving power" -> resolving power

• 154 -- *+*index "seven-transmembrane helix" refers here, why?

• 156 -- **Fig 6.20, Proline codon shown as CGX, actually CCX

• 172 -- *+*line 14 - "Sequences comparisons" -> Sequence comparisons

• 175 -- **Fig 7.6, 3rd line, boxes should be shifted 4 to left.

• 188 -- *+*HW 7.3b, answer wrong in back

• 203 -- *+*over arrow "Alchohol dehydrogenase" -> Alcohol dehydrogenase

• 298 -- In Fig 11.3 "D-Xyulose" -> D-Xylulose

• 309 -- line four "lumenal" -> luminal (preferred spelling from Latin)

• (380 -- Table 14.1, Pyrophosphate value -4.6 differs from all other texts) not a typo

• (393 -- HW 2 and 5 use value for Pyrophosphate above) no typo

• 426 -- in "Enzyme" box, "Whilhelm" -> Wilhelm

• 449 -- *+*Trypansoma brucei -> Trypanosoma brucei

• (535 -- Fig 19.13 reversing colors would match those of Fig 19.12)

• 537 -- **Fig 19.17 caption "Two histadine" -> "Two histidine"

• 538 -- line 3 subunit of photosytem II -> photosystem

• 538 -- *+*line 4: lies at the center of the structure and absorb -> absorbs

• 540 -- *+*Fig 19.24 caption "Jagendorg's" -> Jagendorf's

• 547 -- *+*under Table 19.1 "Rhodospeudomonas viridis" -> Rhodopseudomonas

• 562 -- in Rubisco paragraph, 60 million years -> 600 million years

• 563 -- In Fig. 20.19 "Erythose" -> Erythrose

• 576 -- in blue at top of page "Date Interp." -> Data

• 582 -- Fig 21.6, "C-terminal domain" and "N-terminal domain" are reversed.

• 603 -- *+*early in P: ruby-throated sparrow (wrong!) later ruby throated hummingbird (right!)

• 719 -- **P about platelet activating factor P right justify (it's ragged)

• 782 -- *+*Fig 28.1 caption "Saccharoromyces" -> Saccharomyces

• C5 -- *+*HW 7.3b answer wrong and different from Gumport

• C15 -- **HW 18.11 answer, first word "Dicylo-" ->Dicyclo-

• D15 -- **green fluorescent protein P add page 71 to index

• D18 -- **Jagendorf AndrX change to Andre

• D30 -- *+*seven-transmembrane-helix delete page 154 from index