Chem 4110 Fall 2012 Schedule
| Fall 2012 Chem 4110 | Chapters | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Friday | ||
| days | Week of | ||||||
| 3 | Aug. 27 | Background material | 1; 2 | Syllabus | Origins | Ochem/Cells/Thermo | HE/pH/buffers |
| 3 | Sept. 3 | Nucleic acid structure/function | 3; 24:1-3 | Labor Day | Nucleotides | structure/stability | fractionation |
| 4 | Sept. 10 | Nucleic acid structure/function | 3 | restrict/electro | DNA sequencing | databases/cloning | DNA libraries |
| 4 | Sept. 17 | Protein primary structure/purification | 4; 5 | Exam 1 | Amino Acids | purification | purification |
| 4 | Sept. 24 | Protein 3-D structures | 5; 6 | prot. Sequencing | MS/databases | Sec-structures | 3D-structures |
| 4 | Oct. 1 | Protein 3-D structures | 6 | 3D-structures | Solving structures | Stability/Folding | Myoglobin |
| 4 | Oct. 8 | Protein Function | 7 | Hemoglobin | Muscles | Antibodies | Exam 2 |
| 4 | Oct. 15 | Carbohydrates | 8 | Monosaccharides | Monosaccharides | Polysaccharides | Glycoproteins |
| 2 | Oct. 22 | Lipids | 8 | Fall Break | Fatty Acids/Tags | Membrane lipids | |
| 4 | Oct. 29 | Lipids/Membranes | 9 | Steroids | Lipid bilayers | Membranes | Transport |
| 4 | Nov. 5 | Membrane transport | 9; 10 | Passive | Active | Exam 3 | Energetics/mech |
| 4 | Nov. 12 | Enzyme Mechanisms/Kinetics | 11 | Lysozyme | Serine Proteases | Rate eq/MM | MM/Vmax/Km |
| 2 | Nov. 19 | Enzyme Kinetics | 12 | Inhibition | Allosteric/covalent | Thanksgiving | |
| 4 | Nov. 26 | Biochemical Signaling | 12;13 | Drug design | Hormones/RTKs | RTKs | G-proteins |
| 4 | Dec. 3 | Signaling/DNA-protein interactions | 13/24end | G-proteins | Exam 4 | DNA/protein | Chromatin |
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