Biochemistry Class Notebook

Better know this stuff!

I welcome your comments here after or before your class. Suggestions for topics and clarification may be and are encouraged to be posted here. You can be anonymous or you may identify yourself. I especially would like to see comment strings, that is, what you think about what someone else has said. Come here often to review material covered in lecture.

Much of chapter 1 is a review of material you should have seen before with respect to thermodynamics and Gibbs Free Energy.

Chapter 1 contains a discussion of thermodynamics. Your comments are always welcomed. Enthalpy, entropy and free energy changes lie underneath all biochemical reactions driving them to completion and initiating the next reaction. Carefully read your chapter and search for other sources to reinforce these concepts.

So here's a little description of what I believe explains the difference between
&Delta G and &Delta G0.


Gibb's Free Energy

Here is a quick review of pH, pK and pI that will be important when we begin Chapter 4: amino acids.Amino Acid Titration.



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Here is a summary of some important details concerning amino acid structure and properties. You should also be able to download theses videos for free from the iTunes music store if you have an account. You will find it in the Podcast section under "Biochemistry Class Notebook".


Stevie...what more can I say.

After discussing amino acids, protein primary, secondary and tertiary structure, we will discuss protein structure and function using hemoglobin: the classical allosteric protein.

Here's a brief overview of the most challenging topic in chapter 7, The Bohr Effect.

Here is the first of 2 installments on our Enzyme Kinetics lectures. Use this for a quick review of the terms KM, VMAX, Kcat, KS and enzyme efficiency. More description of the Linweaver-Burke and inhibition will follow in the 2nd installment.