Biochem 503, Fall 2007

Macromolecular Structure and Function

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Jordan Hall, Room 1-17

Course director: Jeff Smith, Jordan Hall Rm 6-229, jss5y@virginia.edu

Texts:
BIOCHEMISTRY, C.K. Mathews and K.E. van Holde, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., latest edition.

INTRODUCTION TO PROTEIN STRUCTURE, C. Brandon and J. Tooze, Garland Publishing Co., Second Edition (1999).

Examinations: There are 4 in-class examinations. Exams 1 - 3 will begin at 8:00am; Exam 4 will be held at 8:30 am.


T 8/28 Introduction/General Architecture of Biomacromolecules Lecture PDF Nakamoto
R 8/30 Structure and Properties of Amino Acids and the Peptide Backbone Lecture PDF Nakamoto

M 9/3 Primary and Secondary Structures in Proteins Lecture PDF Nakamoto
T 9/4 Secondary Structure Prediction Lecture PDF Nakamoto
R 9/6 Spectroscopy of Proteins Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh

M 9/10 NMR I Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh
T 9/11 NMR II Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh
R 9/13 Protein Folding and Kinetics Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh

M 9/17 Protein Folding and Kinetics II Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh
T 9/18 Spectroscopic Approaches to Protein Folding Lecture PDF Khorasanizadeh
R 9/20 Review

M 9/24 Exam I 2004 exam
T 9/25 Electron Microscopy Egelman
R 9/27 Membrane Protein Structure I Lecture PDF Wiener
   Membrane protein structure WWW site

M 10/1 Protein Evolution Lecture PDF Pearson
   Answers to student questions
T 10/2 Protein Domains/Morphology Lecture PDF Pearson
R 10/4 Membrane Protein Structure II Lecture PDF Wiener

M 10/8 Reading break
T 10/9 Reading break
R 10/11 Protein polymers - structure and assembly Egelman

M 10/15 Protein polymerization - kinetics Egelman
T 10/16 Crystallography I Lecture PDF Wiener
R 10/18 Crystallography II Wiener

M 10/22 Exam II 2004 exam
T 10/23 Protein purification Smith
R 10/25 DNA-Protein interactions I Auble

M 10/29 DNA-Protein interactions II Auble
T 10/30 Allosterism Auble
R 11/1 Protein-Protein Interactions I Auble

M 11/5 Protein-Protein Interactions II Auble
T 11/6 Protein Dynamics Lecture PDF Wiener
R 11/8 Enzyme Kinetics I Nakamoto

M 11/12 Enzyme Kinetics II Nakamoto
T 11/13 Protein Structure and Mechanism: Protein Ser/Thr Kinases Lecture PDF Brautigan
   Assigned Reading PDF
R 11/15 Protein Structure and Mechanism: Protein Tyr Kinases Lecture PDF Brautigan
   Assigned Reading

M 11/19 Exam III 2004 exam
T 11/20 Protein Structure and Mechanism: Protein Tyr Phosphatases Lecture PDF Brautigan
   Assigned Reading
R 11/22 Thanksgiving break

M 11/26 Thanksgiving break
T 11/27 Protein Structure and Mechanism: Protein Ser/Thr Phosphatases Lecture PDF Brautigan
   Assigned Reading
R 11/29 Protein modification I - Acetylation Lecture PDF Smith

M 12/3 Protein modification II - Deacetylation Lecture PDF Smith
T 12/4 Protein modification III - Methylation Lecture PDF Smith
R 12/6 Protein Modification - Misc. Lecture PDF Smith

M 12/10 Exam IV 8:30 am 2004 exam

Last updated 158-Aug-2007