Biochemistry

The structure, function, and metabolism of the important classes of biochemicals are discussed. This includes a discussion of the biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins, hormones and coenzymes.

The structure, function, and metabolism of the important classes of biochemicals are discussed. This includes a discussion of the biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins, hormones and coenzymes.

This course involves the study of basic human biochemistry, with an emphasis on biomolecular structure, metabolic pathways and their relationship to human health and disease.

Students are required to present a seminar on a current topic in biochemical research which is of interest to them.

Instruction in biochemical techniques and instrumentation.

The purpose of this course is for the design and performance of research leading to a Ph.D. Enrollment limited to advanced biochemistry and molecular biology graduate students, who have completed the core course work. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

Correlation of the three-dimensional structure of proteins with biological functions is intensively studied.

The purpose of Orientation to Research is to allow the student to become familiar. with the research projects of faculty members in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The student also is given the opportunity to learn some of the research techniques used in these research projects. Students register for course BIOC-211-01 in the Spring Semester of their first year of study. The student works in the laboratories of three faculty members during Orientation to Research

The kinetic and mechanistic theory of enzyme action will be discussed with emphasis on the experimental approach used to interpret kinetic data and determine the kinetic parameters of classical enzymes and well-defined regulatory and transport systems. The steady-state rate equations for a number of unireactant and multi-reactant mechanisms will be developed. Reversible inhibition, isotope exchange, binding phenomenon, activation, environmental effects, and physiological regulation of enzyme activity will be considered separately.

Topics vary somewhat each time the course is taught to include topics of current interest in nucleic acid-protein interaction. See note on page 577 related to Special Topics courses.

This course covers the control of rate-limiting steps in intermediary metabolism by covalent modification of enzymes, metabolic disorders, and chemical messengers.

The purpose of this course is for the design and performance of research leading to a Ph.D. See note on page 577 related to research and dissertation hours.

This course will provide a full overview of the world of cell and microbiology. We will first provide the basic components comprised within all living things before moving onto to how organisms' internal systems work and how they coexist and contend with external elements.