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Advanced Biological Chemistry
Fall Semester 2002
Tentative Lecture and Exam Schedule

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