GBCH601 Fall 2002

Room 5001 8:30AM-10:30AM

Course Syllabus 
Lecture Materials


Course Syllabus

Date
Day
Topic
Instructor
28-Aug
W
30-Aug
F
Nucleic acids, Water, Buffers
2-Sep
M
Labor Day Holiday
4-Sep
W
Thermodynamics and Energetics
6-Sep
F
Amino acids; Protein primary and secondary structure
9-Sep
M
Tertiary and Quaternary structure; Protein folds
11-Sep
W
Globins, actin, myosin, antibodies
13-Sep
F
Protein folding and stability; degradation and modification
16-Sep
M
Yom Kippur Holiday
18-Sep
W
Protein analysis and purification; Determination of structure
20-Sep
F
Lipids and Membranes; Membrane proteins
23-Sep
M
Enzymatic Catalysis, Activation Energy, Catalytic Mechanisms
25-Sep
W
Exam 1 Room 6001
27-Sep
F
Enzyme Kinetics
30-Sep
M
Enzyme Kinetics
2-Oct
W
Inhibition And Regulation
4-Oct
F
Carbohydrate structure & conformational analysis
7-Oct
M
Structural analysis; GlycobiologyÐ proteoglycans
9-Oct
W
Glycobiology Ð glycoproteins and glycosphingolipids
11-Oct
F
Glycolysis, Fermentation, Other Hexoses
14-Oct
M
Glycogen Breakdown, Synthesis, Gluconeogenesis
16-Oct
W
Citric Acid Cycle
18-Oct
F
Mitochondrion, Electron Transport, Oxidative Phosphorylation
21-Oct
M
Exam 2 Room 6001
23-Oct
W
Protein turnover, amino acid transport
25-Oct
F
Amino Acid Biosynthesis, Breakdown
28-Oct
M
Amino Acid Breakdown, Nonstandard Amino Acids
30-Oct
W
Metabolism: Integration And Regulation
1-Nov
F
Nucleotide Metabolism
4-Nov
M
Lipid Digestion, Absorption, And Transport
6-Nov
W
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis, Fatty Acid Oxidation
8-Nov
F
Phospholipids and Signal Transduction
11-Nov
M
Cholesterol Synthesis and Transport
13-Nov
W
Nucleic Acid Structure
15-Nov
F
Exam 3 Room 6001
18-Nov
M
Chromosome Structure, DNA Replication
20-Nov
W
Mutation, DNA, Recombination
22-Nov
F
Transcription
25-Nov
M
Posttranscriptional Processing
27-Nov
W
Thanksgiving
29-Nov
F
Thanksgiving
2-Dec
M
Translation
4-Dec
W
Regulation Of Prokaryotic Gene Expression
6-Dec
F
Regulation Of Prokaryotic Gene Expression
12-Dec
R
Exam 4 1:00-3:00 PM Room 6065

The textbook isFundamentals of Biochemistryby Voet, Voet, and Pratt, available in the Bookstore.

Jim Nolan- Course Director, Dept. Biochemistry, room 6053, 584-245 jnolan@tulane.edu

GBCH601web address: http://www.tulane.edu/~biochem/lecture/601/601sched2002.htm

Biochemistry Department web address: http://www.tulane.edu/~biochem

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Lecture Materials

Dr. Wimley's Sample Questions with Answers

Jim Nolan's Lectures

Life, Nucleotides, Nucleic acids


Course Syllabus