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