Date

Lecture Topic

Text Reading

Text Problems

8/27

Introduction

1.2 - 1.3

8/29^†

Water, weak interactions

2.1

2: 1

9/1

Labor Day: No class

9/3*

Acids, bases, and buffers

2.2 - 2.5

2: 2-6, 8, 10-14;
Living Graph^L

9/5^†

Amino acids and peptides

3.1 - 3.2

3: 2-5, 7-11, 13, 14

9/8*

Protein structure I

3.3, 3.4 summary

3: 15, 16; 4: 1, 4, 6

9/10

Protein structure II, III, IV

4.1 - 4.2

4: 1, 4, 6

9/12^†

Protein folding and denaturation

4.3 - 4.4

4: 8, 11

9/15*

Myoglobin and hemoglobin

5.1

5: 1-6; Living Graph^L

9/17

9/19

Exam 1 (Ch. 1 - 5; selected readings)

9/22^D

Introduction to enzymes

6.1 - 6.2

9/24*

9/26^†

9/29

10/3^†

Examples of enzyme catalysis

6.4

6: 21, 23

10/6

10/8*

10/10^†

Introduction to carbohydrates

7.1 - 7.2

7: 2, 4-8

10/13*

Introduction to nucleotides

8.1

10/15

Introduction to lipids

10.1 - 10.2

10/17

Exam 2 (Ch. 6-8, 10)

10/20^CR

Membrane structure

11.1 - 11.2

11: 4, 11-14, 22

10/22^†

Solute transport

11.3

11: 8-10, 15, 19, 20

10/24*

10/27

12: 3, 4, 6

10/31*

Bioenergetics

13.1 - 13.4

13: 2-6, 9-14, 21, 23-27

11/5^†

Glycolysis

14.1, 14.3

14: 1-3, 6, 9 , 2, 4-6, 10-13

11/10

11/12

Exam 3 (Ch. 11 - 14)

11/14

Regulating glycolysis and gluconeogenesis

15.1, 15.3

15: 1-6

11/19^†

Glycogen metabolism

15.4 - 15.5

15: 7-9, 11, 15

12/1

Pyruvate dehydrogenase and the citric acid cycle

16.1 - 16.3

16: 1-9, 14, 15, 18-31

12/3^†

12/5*

19.1

19: 1-6

12/8

12/10^†

Oxidative phosphorylation

19.2

12/12*

Shuttles, carriers, regulation

19.3

19: 9-11, 13, 14

12/15

Review

12/22

Final Exam 10:45 - 1:15