| Week of |
Topic |
| Aug. 26 |
Protein Structure (ch. 3 & 4)
protein folding, secondary structure, tertiary structure, structural motifs, quaternary structure, methods of structural determination
|
| Sep. 2 |
Enzyme Kinetics (ch. 8)
chemical kinetics, catalyzed reactions, kinetic parameters, two substrate enzymes, enzyme inhibition, enzyme inactivation
|
| Sep. 9 |
Enzyme Mechanisms (ch. 9)
proximity effect, acid-base catalysis, electrostatics, nucleophilic catalysis, case studies: serine proteases, ribonuclease, carbonic anhydrase, lactate and malate dehydrogenases
|
| Sep. 16 |
Enzyme Regulation (ch. 10)
proteolysis, covalent modification, allosteric regulation, case studies: aspartate transcarbamoylase, glycogen phosphorylase
|
Sep. 23 |
EXAM I |
| Sep. 30 |
Metabolic Strategies (ch. 14)
energy requirements, metabolic pathways, enzyme clusters, pathway regulation, pathway analysis
|
| Oct. 7 |
Polysaccharide Metabolism(ch. 21)
disaccharide synthesis, polysaccharides, oligosaccharide synthesis, glycogen degradation & synthesis
|
| Oct. 14 |
Lipids, Membranes and Steroids (ch. 26)
phospholipid synthesis, sphingolipid synthesis, eicosanoids, cholesterol synthesis, lipoprotein metabolism, membranes
|
Oct. 21 |
Lipids, Membranes and Steroids (continued) |
Oct. 28 |
EXAM II |
| Nov. 4 |
Amino Acid Metabolism (ch. 23 & 24)
protein degradation, urea cycle, glutamate pathway, serine pathway, aspartate pathway, pyruvate pathway, aromatic amino acids,
|
| Nov. 11 |
Amino Acid Metabolism (continued)
genetic diseases, essential amino acids, nitrogen fixation, non-protein amino acid metabolism
|
| Nov. 18 |
Nucleotide Metabolism (ch.25)
nucleotide components, purine synthesis, pyrimidine synthesis, deoxynucleotides, inhibition of nucleotide synthesis, nucleotide catabolism, regulation of nucleotide metabolism
|
| Nov. 25 |
Protein Synthesis (ch. 29)
tRNA synthetases, ribosome, protein factors
|
| Dec. 2 |
Integration of Metabolism (ch. 30)
metabolic regulation, tissue specificity, metabolic adaptation
|
Dec. 9 |
EXAM III |