Protein Biochemistry

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: BIOC 2001; declared Major or Honours in Chemistry or Biochemistry; or permission of the Department This course examines the relations between protein structure and function at the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary levels; enzyme catalysis and mechanism; isolation, purification, and characterization of proteins; the metabolism of proteins through synthesis and degradation; and recent trends in protein design. Students learn sequence comparison, motif searching, and development of visual protein structures constructed from the protein structural data bases available over the web. The course introduces mass spectroscopic analyses of the proteome and protein sequencing. [Note 1: Students in other programs who have the prerequisites may be admitted by permission of the instructor.] (Format: Lecture 3 Hours, Laboratory 3 Hours)