CHEM 245
Biochemistry

J. D. Cronk    Syllabus   

Biochemistry topics

Topics include:


Acid-base chemistry: An introduction
Acid-base chemistry: Weak acid equilibria
Acid-base chemistry: Polyprotic systems
α helix (alpha helix)
Amino acids
ATCase Aspartate transcarbamoylase: "The hemoglobin of enzymology"
Bacteriorhodopsin
Beta: β strands and β sheets, a principal type of secondary structure
Bioenergetics I: Chemical thermodynamics and ATP
Blood coagulation cascade
Buffers
Carbohydrates
Carbonic anhydrase: Catalysis with a metal ion cofactor
Catalytic triad: Serine protease mechanism
Chromatography
Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy
Citric acid cycle: Reactions and enzymes
Collagen: a structural protein
Dihedral angles (includes Ramachandran plots)
Electron transport chain (ETC)
Enzymology: An introduction
Enzyme kinetics
Enzyme inhibition
Functional groups - o-chem refresher
Fatty acids
Gluconeogenesis
Glycogen phosphorylase
Glycolysis: Enzymes and reactions
Glycolysis: Regulation
Hemoglobin
Intermolecular forces: The types of noncovalent interactions
Kinetics: an introduction
Lysozyme
Lipids
Michaelis-Menten equation (enzyme kinetics)
Myoglobin
NMR: Summary of multidimensional NMR as a method of protein structure determination
Oxidation-reduction reactions
Phosphate and phosphoryl compounds
Protein methods: Purification and other analytical methods
PyMOL: an open-source molecular graphics program
Quaternary protein structure
Regulation of metabolism
Secondary structure of proteins
Serine proteases
Spectrophotometry
β strands and β sheets (a principal type of secondary structure)
Tertiary protein structure
Thermodynamics: an introduction
Thermodynamics: Heat and heat capacity
Thermodynamics: Entropy
Thermodynamics: The Second Law
Thermodynamics: Equilibrium and free energy
Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)
Thioesters and Coenzyme A
Titrations
Water