GBCH 601-Graduate Biochemistry
 

Fall 1998
 

Room 5001: M,W,F 8:30AM-10:30AM
Notice! Dr. Tou's first lecture:
Structure, properties, synthesis of fatty acids,
Will be repeated Monday, Nov. 30th at 8:30AM.

Course Syllabus 
Lectures


Course Syllabus

 
Date Day Topic Instructor
Sept. 2 W Earl's bluff
Sept. 4 F Amino acids; polypeptide primary, secondary structure Landry
Sept. 7 M Labor Day Holiday
Sept. 9 W Protein folding, stability, solubility, purification and analysis Landry
Sept. 11 F Protein interactions and chaperones Landry
Sept. 14 M Enzyme kinetics Landry
Sept. 16 W Enzyme inhibitors, allosteric enzymes Landry
Sept. 18 F Protein presentations (Homework assignment) Landry
Sept. 21 M Carbohydrate structure & conformational analysis Li
Sept. 23 W Structural analysis; proteoglycans; glycoproteins Li
Sept. 25* 
rm 4001
F Glycolipids, mucopolysaccharidoses Li
Sept. 28 M Glycobiology Li
Sept. 30 W Yom Kippur Holiday
Oct. 2 F EXAM 1
Oct. 5 M Bioenergetics Hamori
Oct. 7 W Nucleotide synthesis and degradation Stjernholm
Oct. 9 F DNA structure/function, RNA structure/function  Hamori
Oct. 12 M DNA replication Hamori
Oct. 14 W Chromosomal DNA organization Hamori
Oct. 16 F Mutation, repair, recombination Karam
Oct. 19 M Transcription Karam
Oct. 21 W Regulation of gene expression Karam
Oct. 23 F Regulation of gene expression Karam
Oct. 26 M Translation, ribozymes and processing Nolan
Oct. 28* 
rm 5150
W Recombinant DNA Nolan
Oct. 30 F Recombinant DNA Nolan
Nov. 2 M Molecular motors Nolan
Nov. 4 W EXAM 2
Nov. 6 F Glycolysis, citric acid cycle Stjernholm
Nov. 9 M Oxidative phosphorylation, HMP-shunt Stjernholm
Nov. 11 W Glycogen, galactose and fructose metabolism Stjernholm
Nov. 13 F C(H20) regulation, uronic acid metabolism Stjernholm
Nov. 16 M Protein turnover, amino acid transport Stjernholm
Nov. 18 W NH3 metabolism, aromatic amino acid metab. Stjernholm
Nov. 20 F S-containing-amino acid metab., polyamines Stjernholm
Nov. 23 M Heme; bile pigments; branched amino acids Stjernholm
Nov. 25 W Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 27 F Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 30 M Structure, properties, synthesis of fatty acids Tou
Dec. 2 W Triacyl glycerol metabolism, fatty acid oxidation Tou
Dec. 4 F Phospholipids, signal transduction Tou
Dec. 7 M Eicosanoids, isoprenoids and cholesterol Tou
Dec. 9 W Steroids, lipoproteins and transport Tou
Dec. 16 W FINAL EXAM

The suggested text is Biochemistry by Lubert Stryer, Fourth edition, available in the Bookstore. Lectures will be derived from a variety of sources, including the suggested textbook.

Contact information:
Jim Nolan- Course Director
Dept. Biochemistry
room 6053
jnolan@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
584-2453


Lectures