Review Session Details
- Learn to sugar stereochemistry (i.e. D/L sugars, enantiomers, diastereomers, epimers)
- Review structural difference between Ribose, Glucose, Mannose and Galactose and Fructose
- Formation of hemi-acetals in cyclic and the concept of mutarotation about the anomeric carbon
- Understand how to assess Fehlin's test
- Learn to convert between Fisher projections, Haworth projection and line structures
- Learn nomenclature for glycosidic bonds
- Sugar function in a cellular context
- Overview of lipid function in the cell and synthesis
- Learn about fatty acid nomenclature, organization and properties
- Key glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid structures
- Understand the various properties of eukaryotic membranes (i.e. Mosaic model, membrane diffusion, lipid composition in outer/inner leaflet
- Understand different protein interactions with lipid bilayer
- Understand how cells facilitate diffusion across the lipid bilayer
