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  • Disclaimer:Online Delivery via E-mail. No Physical Dispatch. Non-Cancellable Product
  • Stream:Medicine
  • Certification:Yes
  • Language:English
  • Format:MOOC
  • Type:Online Fulfillment
  • Duration:15 Weeks For queries and concerns drop an email to learning@snapdeal.com
  • SUPC: SDL456833052

Description

This course explores the molecules of life, starting with building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism and associated diseases.

About this course

Principles of Biochemistry integrates an introduction to the structure of macromolecules and a biochemical approach to cellular function. Topics addressing protein function will include enzyme kinetics, the characterization of major metabolic pathways and their interconnection into tightly regulated networks, and the manipulation of enzymes and pathways with mutations or drugs. An exploration of simple cells (red blood cells) to more complex tissues (muscle and liver) will be used as a framework to discuss the progression in metabolic complexity. Learners will also develop problem solving and analytical skills that are more generally applicable to the life sciences.

New in version 2, learners will explore how alteration of these metabolic pathways relates to the development and progression of some human diseases.

What you'll learn

The structure and function of the chemical building blocks of life

How to navigate protein structures using PyMOL

The central role of enzymes in catalyzing the reactions of life

The primary metabolic pathways that power cells

The intricate mechanisms that regulate cellular metabolism

The integration of biochemical processes in the context of cells, tissues, and whole organisms

How metabolic perturbations are linked to various human diseases

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Introduction to biochemistry 
● Course introduction
● Review of basic biochemistry

Unit 2: Structural biochemistry 
● Protein structure
● Protein folding
● Enzyme catalysis
● Enzyme kinetics and iterative saturation mutagenesis
● Lipid structure and membrane assembly

  Human disease focus: lipodystrophy and lipid droplet pathologies
● Carbohydrate structure

Unit 3: Cellular bioenergetics 
● Glycolysis
● Unique features of glycolysis in red blood cells
● Bacterial energetics
● The citric acid and glyoxylate cycles
● Electron transport
● ATP synthesis
● Regulation of glycolysis in liver cells
● Regulation of blood sugar by the liver
   Human disease focus: diabetes

Unit 4: Tissue-specific metabolism 
● Liver metabolism
● Muscle metabolism
● Brain metabolism
    Human disease focus: PKU

Unit 5: Synthesis and degradation of biomolecules 
● Nucleic acids
● Carbohydrate metabolism
    Human disease focus: G6PD deficiency
● Fatty acid metabolism
● Human disease focus: cancer and cachexia

Meet the instructors

Alain Viel

Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard University

Rachelle Gaudet

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard University

 

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