Corrections for the Machinery of Life, second edition

First printing

  • pg 25, second paragraph, line 8: “mucous” –> “mucus”
  • pg 30, last paragraph, line 5: “from the a few” –> “from a few”
  • pg 31, first paragraph, line 11: “atoms, iodine” –> “iodine atoms”
  • pg 58, second paragraph, line 6: “by a several types” –> “by several types”
  • pg 64, second paragraph, line 2: “the surround space.” –> “the surrounding space.”
  • pg 65, second paragraph, line 1: “Howard Berg”–>”E. M. Purcell”
  • pg 85, third paragraph, line 9: “can bundled” –> “can be bundled”
  • pg 96, figure caption, first line “contraction in generated” -> “contraction is generated”
  • pg 100, line 5, “compliment”->”complement”
  • pg 101, third paragraph, line 1: “by chain” –> “by a chain”
  • pg 103, second paragraph, line 7: “central nervous signal” –> “central nervous system”
  • pg 108: enlarge figure to fill page.
  • pg 114: second paragraph, line 11, “Fig. 4.7” -> “Fig. 4.6”
  • pg 152: second paragraph, line 7, “the trypanosomes that cause” -> “the protozoans that cause”
  • pg 154: second paragraph, line 10, “cytochrome p450” -> “cytochrome P450” (capitalize the P)
  • pg 158: remove “ATP synthase …” from 3.9 and move it to a new line:
    “3.10 ATP synthase 1c17, 1e79, 1l2p, 2a7u”
  • pg 158: for the line with “3.10 Vitamin B12 transporter” etc, change “3.10” -> “3.11”

Second printing

  • pg 55: Figure caption, last sentence: “10,000 X” -> “100,000 X”
  • pg 61: Figure caption, label “F” is misplaced–it should be on the four-fold symmetric protein in orange wrapped with DNA
  • pg 96: third paragraph, last sentence: “to transport of cholesterol” -> “to transport cholesterol”
  • pg 123: second paragraph, first sentence: “by simply by flooding” -> “by simply flooding”
  • pg 137: first paragraph, line 9: “while the gut” -> “while in the gut”
  • pg 146: fourth paragraph, line 4: “that oxygen” -> “than oxygen”
  • pg 155: fourth paragraph, line 8: “With out” -> “Without”
  • pg 158: first two lines: “Ferredoxin 1fxa” and “Plastocyanin 1bxu”

Corrections found during a translation, July 2014

  • pg 59: second paragraph, line 13: “proteasome molecules such as ClpA” -> “proteasome-like molecules such as ClpA”
  • pg 86: fourth paragraph, line 11: “stand” -> “strand”
  • pg 103, third paragraph, line 5 & 9: “excitory” -> “excitatory”
  • ***important*** pg 107, line 1: “hundred trillion” -> “hundred billion”
  • pg 123, Fig 7.9 caption, last line: “orange and pink” -> “orange and yellow”
  • pg 146, paragraph 2, last sentence: “amygdalen” -> “amygdalin”
  • pg 150, second paragraph, last sentence: “pertussus” -> “pertussis”
  • pg 155, fourth paragraph, line 10: “send” -> “end”