Chem 4320/5320: Biochemistry 1

by University of Arkansas Little Rock

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We are now in an age of exceptional opportunities for the application of our great understanding of Biochemistry to problems in medicine, dentistry, agriculture, forensics, anthropology, environmental science, nutrition, physiology, genetics, and immunology; practically all of the primary specialties on the life sciences.

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Chemistry
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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Properties of the Twenty Common Amino Acids
  7. 1.1: Nomenclature of Amino acids
  8. 1.2: Structure of Amino Acids
  9. 1.3: Properties of Amino Acids
  10. 1.3.1. Charged Nature of Amino Acid
  11. 1.3.2. Stereochemistry of Amino Acids
  12. 1.4: Reactions of Amino Acids
  13. 1.4.1 Acid-base Chemistry of Amino Acids
  14. 1.4.2. Acid-Base Reactions of Amino Acids
  15. 2: Proteins Structure: from Amino Acid Sequence to Three Dimensional Structure
  16. 2.1: The Structure of Proteins
  17. 2.2: Protein Sequencing
  18. 2.3: Protein Structural Determination
  19. 2.4: Protein Folding and Prions
  20. 2.5: Denaturation of proteins
  21. 2.6: Amino Acids and Proteins (Exercises)
  22. 3: Methods of Protein Purification and Characterization
  23. 3.1: Protein Purification
  24. 3.2: Cell Disruption
  25. 3.3:Cell Fractionation and Centrifugation
  26. 3.4: Chromatography
  27. 3.4.1. Affinity Chromatography
  28. 3.4.2. Gel Exclusion Chromatography
  29. 3.4.3. Ion Exchange Chromatography
  30. 3.5: Electrophoresis
  31. 3.5.1: Blotting
  32. 3.5.2: Exercises
  33. 4: Overview of Hemoglobin and Myoglobin
  34. 4.1: Myoglobin, Hemoglobin, and their Ligands
  35. 4.2: Oxygen Transport by the Proteins Myoglobin and Hemoglobin
  36. 4.3: Exercises
  37. 5: Michaelis-Menten Enzyme Kinetics, Inhibitors, pH optima; Bi-Substrate Reactions
  38. 5.1: Catalytic Efficiency of Enzymes
  39. 5.2: Enzyme Parameters
  40. 5.3: Michaelis-Menten Kinetics
  41. 5.4: Enzyme Inhibition
  42. 5.5: Temperature, pH, and enzyme concentration on the rate of a reaction
  43. 5.6: Multi-Substrate Sequential Mechanisms
  44. 5.7: Double displacement reaction
  45. 6: Classification and Catalytic Strategies of Enzymes
  46. 6.1: Serine proteases
  47. 6.2: Transititon State Analogs and Catalytic Antibodies
  48. 6.3: Restriction Endonuclease
  49. 7: Regulation of Enzyme Activity
  50. 7.1: Control of Metabolism Through Enzyme Regulation
  51. 7.2: Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes (Summary)
  52. 7.3: Exercises
  53. 8: Carbohydrate Structures, Stereochemistry, and Glycosides
  54. Front Matter
  55. TitlePage
  56. InfoPage
  57. 8.1: Carbohydrates Fundamentals
  58. 8.2: Monosaccharides
  59. 8.3: Disaccharides
  60. 8.4: Oligosaccharides
  61. 8.5: Polysaccharides
  62. 8.6: Exercises
  63. Back Matter
  64. Index
  65. 10: Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Links Glycolysis to Krebs Cycle
  66. 10.1: The Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle)
  67. 10.2: Exercises
  68. 11: Electron Transport Chain and Oxidative Phosphorylation
  69. 11.1: ETC and Oxidative Phosphorylation
  70. 11.1: Exercises
  71. 12: The Flow of Genetic Information: from DNA to RNA and Proteins
  72. 12.1: The Structure of DNA
  73. 12.2: DNA Replication
  74. 12.3: DNA Repair
  75. 12.4: RNA
  76. 12.4.1 Types of RNA
  77. 12.4.2. RNA - Transcription
  78. 12.4.3. Regulation of Transcription
  79. 12.5: The Genetic Code
  80. 12.6: Translation
  81. 12.7: Exercises
  82. 13: Integrated chapter (HIV)
  83. 13.1: Envelope glycoprotein GP120
  84. 13.2: HIV-1 protease (PR)
  85. 13.3: HIV vaccine
  86. 13.4: Exercises
  87. 9: Glycolysis and Gluconeogenesis
  88. 9.1: Glycolysis - Reaction and Regulation
  89. 9.2 Gluconeogenesis: Reaction and regulation
  90. 9.3: Exercises
  91. Back Matter
  92. Index
  93. Glossary
  94. Detailed Licensing