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Lecture 1 and 2 - Intro and What is Biochemistry?
Macromolecules,
Nucleic acids,
Proteins
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Lecture 3 - introduction to proteins
Proteins intro,
Primer on proteins,
Number of amino acids
26
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Lecture 4 - building blocks of proteins
What makes up an amino acid prope...,
What does it mean when you say th...,
L and d form
66
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Lecture 5 - Elements of protein structure
Peptide bond features,
Each protein is made up of at lea...,
Proteins are mostly globular ther...
34
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Lecture 6 - Protein structure and protein folding
Supersecondary structure,
Common motifs of super secondary ...,
Helix turn helix
21
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Lecture 7 - Proteins in action
Problem of oxygen availability in...,
Haemoglobin,
Myoglobin
37
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Lecture 8 - proteins in action continued
T state and r state,
T state pattern,
R state pattern
40
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Lecture 9 - Enzymes are essential for life
Enzymes,
Gibbs free energy,
Activation energy
41
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Lecture 10 - Mechanisms for enzyme catalysis
Covalent catalysis,
Give an example of the type of am...,
What type of amino acids are like...
14
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Lecture 11 - How fast is that enzyme?
Two events related to an enzyme,
K1 and k 1,
K2
32
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Lecture 12 - How fast is that enzyme? continued
Michaelis menton equation,
Lineweaver burk plot,
Interpretation of km
50
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Lecture 13 - enzymes and alcohol
Why are enzymes important in phar...,
What do we need to know about enz...,
What two enzymes are involved in ...
22
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Lecture 14 - HIV protease inhibitors
Designing a drug,
Background research of hiv protease,
Hiv is a rna retrovirus
14
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LAB 1
Mol to mmol,
Mmol to mol,
Mol to mol
28
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LAB 2
Absorbance spectrum,
Absorbance maxima,
Unit for molar absorbance coeffic...
20
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Lecture 15 - How do genes make cells?
How does dna make you,
Typical human cell,
Building blocks
23
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Lecture 16 - How are we all different?
Genetic variation,
Mendels laws of inheritance,
Law of segregation
19
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Lecture 17 - How do genetic differences lead to a disease?
Translation,
Translation initiation,
Elongation
19
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Lecture 18 - What are recessive and dominant mutations?
Mutations can occur in any cell a...,
What is cancer,
Multiple mutations underlie the d...
14
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Lecture 19 - Recombinant DNA technology
Diabetes,
Insulin timeline,
What are recombinant dna technolo...
17
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Lecture 20 - Recombinant proteins
Key steps in producing a recombin...,
Insulin formation process,
Why can recombinant insulin prote...
21
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Lecture 21 - Biotechnology in use
Recombinant dna technology pathways,
Financial reasons and biochemical...,
Insulin post translational modifi...
13
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Lecture 22 - Energy balances in cells and organisms
Overall idea of metabolism,
First law of thermodynamics,
Energy balances in cells and orga...
23
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Lecture 23 - Digestion of food molecules
What are the main macronutrients ...,
Carbohydrate broken down into,
Protein broken down into
43
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Lecture 24 - Absorption and transport of fats
Two examples of molecules associa...,
Bile salts,
What are bile acids bile salts ma...
33
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Lecture 25 - absorption of carbohydrates and proteins
Absorption of products from the g...,
Overview of carbohydrate processi...,
Sugar transport
20
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Lecture 26 - A snapshot of vitamins and minerals from a nutrition perspective
Vitamins and minerals are considered,
Nutrient status,
Characteristics of vitamins
20
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Lecture 27 - Introduction, a handy reminder
Take our fuel molecules from dige...,
First law of thermodynamics reminder,
Atp
26
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Lecture 28 - Glucose as a fuel molecule
Glucose as a fuel molecule,
Glucose is essential as fuel for ...,
Glucose is favoured fuel in the b
24
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Lecture 29 - Fatty acids as a fuel molecule
Glucose as a fuel molecule in muscle,
Fatty acids as a fuel molecule,
Why store fuel as fats
25
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Lecture 30 - The final oxidation: The citric acid cycle
Citric acid cycle,
Where does the citric acid cycle ...,
Other names for the citric acid c...
18
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Lecture 31 - Amino acids as fuel molecules
Deamination of amino acids,
Deamination generates,
A carbon skeleton
21
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Lecture 32 - The electron transport chain
Oxidative phosphorylation,
Proton gradient,
Where is the etc
26
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Lecture 33 - Oxidative phosphorylation - finally making some ATP !!
The mechanism of oxidative phosph...,
Proton motive force,
Proton gradient produced by
13
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