CHEM 464 - Biochemistry Laboratory

1 Credits

Prerequisite(s): CHEM 201, 202, and 309. Laboratory, expanding the lecture material in Biochemistry, providing instruction and practical applications of the tools and techniques employed in Biochemistry. Included are investigation into the properties of non-covalent bonds, coulomb’s law, Leonard-Jones potentials, Hydrogen bond potentials; amino acid structure and properties, protein folding, allosteric and cooperative binding of ligand and protein, enzyme kinetics and thermodynamics. Also included are laboratories detailing the purification of proteins by electrophoresis and chromatography, analysis of protein weight, concentration, isoelectric point, crystallization and determination of protein function by x-ray crystallography.