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Biochemistry in Context |
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Metabolic
setting for biochemistry |
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• Basic
Strategy
• Reviewing
Chemistry
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Life's medium:
water |
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• Water | |
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• Amino Acids
• Protein Sequence
Also see
• Sequencing
Problem (for class discussion)
• Graphical pI
Calculator (Excel File)
• Get to Know Histidine
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• Protein
Structure
• Protein
Function
• Learn
to
View in Stereo
Also see
• Extra
Problems: Oxygen Transport
Solutions HERE.
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Enzyme kinetics |
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• Enzymes Also see
1) Deriving the MM Equation
2) Summary: Effects of Inhibitors
3) Enzyme Kinetics Problem (for
class discussion) Try solving the problem using this Nonlinear Least Squares Curve Fitter.
4) More About Bisubstrate
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Enzyme mechanisms |
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• Enzyme
Mechanisms |
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Coenzymes
Neat Web Site:
HIC-Up
database of ligands in biomolecular models
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Various Coenzymes |
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Lipids & membranes |
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Also see
•Supplemental Problems in Transmembrane Transport
Solutions will appear HERE.
More detailed model of the Na+/K+ pump HERE. |
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Metabolism |
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• Bioenergetics
• Metabolism
Table:
More Free Energies of Hydrolysis | |
Glycolysis |
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Citric acid
cycle |
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Electron transport
& ATP synthesis |
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End of First Semester
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Carbohydrate
metabolism II |
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Photosynthesis |
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Photosynthesis
Click HERE for a figure
depicting excitation transfer among photosynthetic antenna
pigments.
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Lipid metabolism |
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Amino-acid
metabolism |
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Nucleotide
metabolism |
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(a good chapter to skip, unless you are really focusing on metabolism) |
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Nucleic acids |
Understanding
Supercoiling
and
Linking Number
of Circular DNA |
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Replication
and DNA repair |
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Transcription
& RNA processing |
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Translation:
protein synthesis |
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Recombinant
DNA technology |
HERE are slides for a lecture: Recombinant DNA Project
Lecture Outline |
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Special Topics |
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Structure Determination
of
Macromolecules
by X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and homology modeling |
1) CMCC,
3rd Edition
2) Principles
of Protein Structure, Comparative Protein Modelling and Visualisation
(online
modeling text) |
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Bioinformatics |
Tutorial: Bioinformatics
for Beginners |
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The Five Senses |
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• Nerve Action |
Molecules of the Nervous and Sensory Systems |