Chemistry & Biochemistry 142A: Chemical Aspects of Biological Systems

Class Schedule


Schedule: Following is an approximate schedule for the class.
 
Week
Text Chapter
Suggested Problems
Themes 
0
  
 
 Properties of living things, nature of biological mole-cules, macromolecules, energy in biological systems, high energy molecules, translation, transcription
1
1
   Cells, evolutionary relations, lab organisms, biologically important chemical reactions
2
2, 3
2-1,2,3
3-6
 Properties of living things, nature of biological mole-cules, macromolecules, energy in biological systems, high energy molecules, translation, transcription
3
4
4-1,2,3,6,7,8 
 Chemical interactions, water, hydrophobic and hydro-philic interactions, weak acids, pH, properties of macroions
Friday
Oct. 12
 
 
 Mid-term Examination I
(Course drop deadline is Oct. 19.)
4
5,6
5-1,2,7,8,12,15
 Amino acids, peptides, primary sequence, sequence determination, conformational determinants, levels of protein structure
5
5,6
6-1,3,4,6,10
 Types of proteins, structural motifs, levels of structure, conjugated proteins, mutations, protein classification, evolution
6
7,8
7-1,2,3,6,7,12
 Representations of protein structures, protein dynamics, protein design, ligand interactions, allostery, denaturation, "the folding problem", chaperones, proteonomics, the immune system
Friday
Nov. 9
 
 
 Mid-term Examination II
7
7,8
   Muscle
8
8
8-1,2,3,6,
10,12,16
 Enzymes, kinetics, sources of catalysis, inhibition, regulation, catalytic antibodies
9
11
 11-1,2,3,4,
6,9
 Fatty acids, lipids, micelle formation, bilayers, membranes, the fluid mosaic
10
12
12-1,3,45,
6,16,22
 Dynamics of membrane structures, membrane-protein interactions, lipoproteins, glycoproteins, transport processes
Tuesday
Dec. 11
 
 
 Final Examination

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