Week 17: Isoprenoid metabolism, Biosynthetic pathways, Monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, phytosterols, diterpenes, Enzymes with multiple functions -mechanisms and evolution.
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction to photosynthetic organisms, Bioenergetics and overview of photosynthesis
- Week 2: Photosynthesis: The Light Reaction, Photosystems, ATP Synthesis
- Week 3: CO2 Fixation, RuBisCo and enzyme kinetic, C-3 Cycle, C-4 Cycle, Regulation of photosynthesis
- Week 4: Introduction to carbohydrates: Occurrence and classification, Sugar structures, synthesis of polysaccharides
- Week 5: Carbon metabolism in the chloroplast, Starch synthesis Pentose phosphate pathway
- Week 6: Carbon export Sucrose synthesis and transport in vascular plants, Cellulose synthesis and composition of primary cell walls
- Week7: Introduction to lipids: Occurrence,classification.Structure and chemical properties of fatty acids
- Week 8: Fatty acid biosynthesis in plants, di and triglycerides, phospholipids, glycolipids, sulpholipids, waxes and sterols
- Week 9: Mid Term Examinations
- Week 10: Introduction to Proteins: Amino acids and their structure. Electrochemical properties and reactionsof amino acids
- Week 11: Classification of proteins Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure of proteins Protein targeting. Protein folding and unfolding
- Week 12: Transport,storage,regulatory and receptor proteins. Protein purification. Protein sequencing. Biological role Plant defence proteins and peptides
- Week 13: Defensins and related proteins, Synthesis and functions of non-ribosomal peptides ,Introduction to Nucleic Acids: General introduction. Purine and pyrimidine bases
- Week 14: Nucleosides and nucleotides. Structure and properties of DNA and RNA.Types and functions of RNA.Nucleic Acid Metabolism
- week 15: Introduction to Enzymes: Nature and functions, I.U.E. classification with examples of typical groups. Isozymes, ribozymes, abzymes.Enzyme specificity. Enzyme kinetics.
- Week 16: Nature of active site and mode of action.Allosteric enzymes and feedback mechanism. Enzymes with multiple functions mechanisms and evolution
- Week 17: Isoprenoid metabolism, Biosynthetic pathways, Monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, phytosterols, diterpenes, Enzymes with multiple functions -mechanisms and evolution.
- Week 18: Final Term examinations
- Chapters 18
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Mr. Rameez Hussain
