Text: L. Stryer: Biochemistiy, Fourth Edition

Date                Chapter              Topic

Sept. 6               2, 3                    Another Look at Proteins
Sept. 10             9                        Catalytic Strategies
Sept. 13            10                       Regulatory Strategies
Sept. 17            12                       Membrane Channels and Pumps
Sept. 20            13                       Signal Transduction Cascades
Sept. 24                                       HOUR EXAM
Sept. 27, Oct.1 14                       Antibodies and T-Cell Receptors
Oct. 4               15                       Molecular Motors
Oct. 11             16                       Protein Folding and Design
Oct. 15                                        Evolution of Proteins
Oct. 18             26                       Photosynthesis
Oct. 22             27                       Biosynthesis of Membrane Lipids and Steroids
Oct. 25             28                       Biosynthesis of Amino Acids and Heme
Oct. 29                                        HOUR EXAM
Nov. 1              29                       Biosynthesis of Nucleotides
Nov. 5              4, 5                     Another Look at Nucleic Acids
Nov. 8              31                       DNA: Replication and Repair
Nov. 12            32                       Gene Rearrangements
Nov. 15            33                       RNA Synthesis and Splicing
Nov. 19            35                       Protein Targeting
Nov. 26            37                       Eucaryotic Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Nov. 29                                       HOUR EXAM
Dec. 3                                         Viruses
Dec. 6                                         My Favorite Molecule
Dec. 10                                       Origin of life

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