BIOCHEMISTRY OF METABOLIC PROCESSES

Structure, properties and Biological importance:

Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Polysaccharides and Glycoconjugates

Metabolism- Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, ETC, Glycogenesis and glycogenolysis 

Structure and Significance: 

Physiologically important saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, 

Triacylglycerols, Phospholipids, glycolipids, Steroids

Beta oxidation of palmitic acid, biosynthesis of TAG

Amino acids: Structure, Classification and General properties of α-amino acids; 

Physiological importance of essential and non-essential α-amino acids

Levels of organization in proteins; 

Denaturation; 

Introduction to simple and conjugated proteins

Transamination, Deamination, Urea cycle, decarboxylation.

Structure: Purines and pyrimidines, 

Nucleosides, Nucleotides, Nucleic acids

Cot Curves: Base pairing, 

Denaturation and Renaturation of DNA

Types of DNA and RNA, Complementarity of DNA, 

Nomenclature and classification;

Cofactors; Specificity of enzyme action; Isozymes;

Mechanism of enzyme action; Enzyme kinetics;

Factors affecting rate of enzyme-catalyzed reactions;

Derivation of Michaelis-Menten equation, Concept of Km and Vmax, 

Lineweaver-Burk plot; 

Enzyme inhibition; Allosteric enzymes