Date

Lecture Topic

Text Reading

Text Problems

8/27^P

Water, weak interactions

1: 12 – 21; 2: 47 - 58

9/1^Q

Acids, bases, and buffers

2: 60 – 70

2: 5-14; Living Graph

9/3^P

Amino acids and peptides

3: 75 – 88

3: 2-5, 7-10, 13

9/10^Q

Protein structure: I-IV

3: 96 – 104;
4: 116 – 146

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

Protein folding and denaturation

4: 147 – 153

9/15^Q

Myoglobin & hemoglobin

5: 157 – 164

5: 1-3; Living Graph

9/17

Hemoglobin and its modulators

5: 164 – 174

5: 4-6; Living Graph

9/22

Exam 1 (Ch. 1 – 5; selected readings only)

9/24^P

Introduction to enzymes

6: 190 – 202

9/29^Q

Enzyme kinetics and inhibition

6: 202 – 213

6: 7-12, 15, 16, 18, 19; Living Graph

10/1^P

10/6^Q

Examples of enzyme catalysis

6: 213 – 225

10/8^P

Regulation of enzyme activity

6: 226 – 233

10/13^Q

Introduction to carbohydrates

7: 238 – 247

7: 1-5

Introduction to nucleotides

8:273 - 276, 300 - 302

Introduction to lipids

10: 343 – 355

10/15

Exam 2 (Ch. 6-8, 10)

10/20^P

Membrane structure
Solute transport

11: 369 – 380;
389 – 401

11: 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15; Living Graph

10/22^Q

10/27^P

Biosignaling

12: 421 – 427;
435 – 438

12: 3, 4, 10, 11, 15

10/29^Q

Bioenergetics

13: 489 – 517

13: 2-6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18-22

11/3^P

Glycolysis

14: 521 – 543

14: 1-3, 6, 9

11/5^Q

Gluconeogenesis

14: 543 – 557

14: 5, 16, 18, 20

11/10

Exam 3 (Ch. 11 – 14)

11/12^P

Glycogen metabolism

15: 562 – 591

15: 1, 6

11/17^Q

Regulating carbohydrate metabolism

15: 571 – 591

15: 3, 7-9, 11

11/19^P

11/23, 11/25

Thanksgiving recess

12/1^Q

Pyruvate dehydrogenase and the citric acid cycle

16: 601 – 623

16: 1-5, 7, 8, 10-20

12/3^P

Electron transport

19: 690 – 704

19: 1-6, 9-13

12/8^Q

Oxidative phosphorylation

19: 704 – 713

12/10

Shuttles, carriers, regulation

19: 713 – 719

19: 9-13, 17, 18

12/15

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