Room 5001 8:30AM-10:30AM

Course Syllabus 
Lecture Materials

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Course Syllabus

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