Includes notes on functional groups, amino acids and peptides, amino acid classes, primary secondary, and tertiary protein structures, protein structures, heme groups, thermodynamics and enzyme catalysis, Lineweaver Burke plots, Michaelis Menton equations and kinetics, cellular transport
Basics of DNA structure, DNA supercoiling and undercoiling, DNA replication, leading + lagging strands, enzyme involved in DNA replication, mechanisms of DNA fidelity, mismatch repair, MutL and MutS proteins, base excision repair, types of RNA, transcription, role of RNA polymerase, Lac operon, gene expression in eukaryotes, Wobble hypothesis, Steps to protein synthesis, translation elongation, gene cloning, process of PCR, DNA microarrays, Sanger sequencing, CRISPR
Covers topics including free energy/delta G, role of NAD/FAD/NADH/FADH2, glycolysis (in detail), PFK-1 enzyme regulation, gluconeogenesis, the 3 bypass reactions of gluconeogenesis, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, TCA/Citric Acid/Krebs Cycle, pentose phosphate pathway, electron transfer complexes, ATP synthase, bioenergetics of TCA cycle, role of glycogen, signaling pathways in metabolism, fatty acid synthesis, beta oxidation
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