BCH 2333/2733
Test #4/#5 or Midterm 2 Review Sessions
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Protein Binding and
Michaelis-Menton Kinetics
Review Session Details
- Understanding general ligand binding (i.e. formulate equation and associate it to Kd)
- Learn to manipulate the simple Kd equation into complex ones
- Graphically understand how protein-ligand system is interpreted
- Cooperativity in ligand binding (i.e. Hill plot)
- Assess the two types of cooperativity models (MWC vs. KNF model)
- Apply protein-ligand cooperativity to oxygen transport in the body
- Understand enzyme catalysis graphically and in-terms of Gibbs free energy
- Understanding the Briggs-Haldane model and the steady-state approximation
- Measuring the rate of enzymatic reactions with Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics
- Understand the Michaelis-Menten equation
- Graphically understand how to interpret Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics
- Graphically understand the lineweaver-burke plot (double reciprocal of Michaelis-Menten graph)
- Fully understand the following kinetic parameters: KM, Kd, kcat, kcat/KM
BCH2333/2733: Protein Binding and Michaelis-Menten Kinetics
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Enzyme Inhibition,
Catalysis and Regulation
Review Session Details
- Understand general mechanism for enzyme catalysis (i.e. catalysis via induced fit, covalent catalysis, acid-base catalysis, catalysis by approximation and metal-ion catalysis)
- Using specific case studies, learn to identify which type of catalysis is being used by enzyme
- Learn how cofactors and coenzymes are involved in enzyme catalysis (with specific examples)
- Understand how allosteric binding can lead to feedback activation or inhibition (will use Aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase) to understand concept)
- Learn other forms of enzyme regulations such as: isozymes, reversible covalent modification, proteolytic cleavage and transcriptional control
- Learn how various types of reversible inhibitors can affect Michaelis-Menten parameters (Km and Vamx)
- Graphically understand how to determine which type of reversible inhibitor is present using a Line-weaver Burke plot
- Learn about the different types of irreversible inhibitors
BCH2333/2733: Enzyme Catalysis, Regulation and Inhibition
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Protein Folding
and Structure
Review Session Details
- Review amino acid side chain properties (i.e. pKa, charges, stereochemistry, trans/cis amide bonds)
- Understand the 3 main dihedral angles regulating secondary structure (phi, psi and omega)
- Apply dihedral angles to Ramachandran plot
- Relate secondary structures to Ramachandran plot
- Properties of helices (i.e. residues per turn, pitch, H-bonding, simple calculations, drawing helical wheel)
- Properties of Beta-sheets (i.e. length per residue, H-bonding, types of turns, simple calculations)
- Domains vs. motifs
- How to identify type of quaternary structure (i.e. C2, C3, D2, D3 etc.)
- Thermodynamics involved for protein folding
- Understand what facilitates folding of proteins
BCH2333/2733: Protein Folding and Structure
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Lipids, Protein Binding and
Nucleic Acid Structures
Review Session Details
- Review primary DNA structure (i.e. base tautomerization, classic base pair H-bonding, c2/c3 endo sugar rings)
- Understand the inter- and intramolecular interaction in a DNA double helix
- Analyse and understand DNA secondary structures (i.e. DNA helices: A, B, and Z)
- Remembering Chargaff's Rule
- Understand properties of triple DNA helices (H-DNA)
- Palindromes and formation of hairpins and
- DNA denaturation and melting curves
- Types of lipids and their structures
- Lipid membrane properties (i.e. fluidity, lateral and transverse diffusion, and cholesterol)
- Fatty acid nomenclature
- Understanding general ligand binding (i.e. formulate equation and associate it to Kd)
- Learn to manipulate the simple Kd equation into complex ones
- Graphically understand how protein-ligand system is interpreted
- Cooperativity in ligand binding (i.e. Hill plot)
- Assess the two types of cooperativity models (MWC vs. KNF model)
- Apply protein-ligand cooperativity to oxygen transport in the body
BCH2333/2733: Nucleic Acid Structures, Lipids and Protein Binding
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Thermodynamics, Buffers
and Carbohydrates
Review Session Details
- Review Session will include tutoring with problem solving from past Midterms/Tests
- Types of intermolecular interactions in biochemistry (i.e. ionic and dipole interactions)
- The hydrophobic effect
- Three thermodynamic parameters: ∆H, ∆S and ∆G
- ∆G and equilibrium constants (Keq) of biochemical reactions
- Using the H-H equation to solve for pH, pKa and concentration of buffer
- Switch between line structure and Fisher projection for sugars
- Sugar stereochemistry (i.e. D/L sugars, enantiomers, diastereomers, epimers)
- Structural difference between Ribose, Glucose, Mannose and Galactose and Fructose
- The concept of mutarotation about the anomeric carbon
- Learn to convert between Fisher projections, Haworth projection and line structures
- Sugar function in a cellular context
BCH2333/2733: Thermodynamics, Buffers and Carbohydrates
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Amino acids, Peptides
and Nucleic Acids
Review Session Details
- Review Session will include tutoring with problem solving from past Midterms/Tests
- Understand how to assess amino acid stereochemistry
- Switch between line structure and Fisher projection for amino acids
- Learn the mechanism for the formation of a amide bond
- Review 20 natural amino acids and their pKas
- Amino acid charge at various pH and its isoelectric point (pI) values
- Composition of DNA and RNA nucleic acids
- DNA structure (i.e. base tautomerization, classic base pair H-bonding, c2/c3 endo sugar rings)
- Understand the inter- and intramolecular interaction in a DNA double helix
- Analyse and understand DNA secondary structures (i.e. DNA helices: A, B, and Z)
- Drawing oligomers of DNA and RNA
- Mechanism for the formation of a phosphodiester bond
- Identifying nucleic acid base pairing and tautomers
BCH2333/2733: Amino acids, peptides and nucleic acids
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