| Tuesday lectures in italics | Thurday lectures in BOLD |
| Underline is special event | BOLD red is assignment due date |
| Underline blue is test date or oral presentation date |
(L) lecturer is W. Lanzilotta
(M) lecturer is Kelley Moremen
August 2008 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2
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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 (1)First Day of Class:Intro to the class, assignments, tests, Intro to living systems and general review of the chemistry of life. (L); (2)Thermodynamics of biological systems, protein purif., physical char. (L) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 (3) Protein folding and intro to protein structure (L) (Note: MyId info due Tues 8/26),
(4)Structure determination by NMR and X-ray crystallography (L)
31 September 2008 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 (5) Enzyme kinetics, specificity, and regulation; 1st exam (L)
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (6) Membranes, cell surfaces, and membrane transport (L);(7) Membranes, cell surfaces, and membrane transport (L);
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (8) Inorganic chem review,metalloproteins (L); (9) Electron transport, Ox Phos and redox chemistry (L); (Note: Protein choice/Introduction due Thursday, 9/18)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 (10) Photosynthetic energy generation (L);
(11) Oxygen and iron:enzyme mechanisms and evolutionary implications (L);
28 28 30 2nd exam (L) October 2008 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 (0) Recombinant protein expression strategies (M); 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (1&2) Protein Structure: motifs, domains, 3°, 4° structure (M); (3) Enzyme catalytic mechanisms(M)
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 (4) Case studies: Lysozyme and glycosidases(M); (5) Case studies: Serine proteases (M); 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3rd exam (M); (6&7) Case studies: Nucleotide binding proteins (M)
26 27 28 29 30 31 (7) Case studies: Vitamins and coenzymes (M), (8) Allosteric regulation #1 (M);
(NOTE: homework Problem set due Thursday, 10/30), FALL BREAK
November 2008 S M Tu W Th F S 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Allosteric regulation #2, (10) Glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, glycogen synthesis, and breakdown (M)
(NOTE: Protein write-up deadline, Thursday, 11/6) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 4th exam (M), Metals in biology and catalysis (L) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 (11) Protein structure and function in signal cascades (M), Fermentation, pentose phosphate pathway, energy charge (Note: Powerpoint file due for Oral Report, 11/20) 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Thanksgiving Break
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December 2008
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1 2 3 4 5 6 Class Presentations of Enzyme Reports (M); Class Presentations of Enzyme Reports (M)
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Final Exam (3:30 pm - 6:00 pm, time slot for 2pm Tu/Th classes)
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