DNA/RNA/PROTEIN
(Submitted by Sara P.)
  1. Molecular biology: tools and techniques
  2. Transcriptional regulation: the operon model of transcription, eukaryotic transcription
  3. Protein synthesis: steps, regulation, energy, differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, post-translational modification
  4. Acid base titration curve of amino acids, proteins

 

GENETIC ERRORS
(Submitted by Ron)
  1. Inherited hyperlipidemias: types, clinical manifestations, specific changes in serum lipids
  2. Glycogen and lysosomal storage diseases, I cell disease.
  3. Porphyrias: defects, clinical presentation, effect of barbituates
  4. Inherited defects in amino acid metabolism

 

METABOLISM
1-5 AKiko, 6-9, 11-13 Katie, 10 Bryan H.
***Updated on 5/22/2001 at 2:45 pm
  1. Glycogen synthesis: regulation, inherited defects
  2. Oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, and ATP production for fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
  3. Amino acid degradation pathways
  4. Effect of enzyme phosphorylation on metabolic pathways
  5. Rate-limiting enzymes in different metabolic pathways
  6. Sites of different metabolic pathways
  7. Fed state versus fasting state: forms of energy used, direction of metabolic pathways
  8. Tyrosine kinases and their effects on metabolic pathways
  9. Anti-insulin hormones
  10. Synthesis and metabolism of neurotransmitters
  11. Purine/pyrimidine degradation
  12. Carnitine shuttle: function, inherited defects
  13. Cellular/organ effects of insulin secretion


dna_prot.doc
genetics.doc
metabolism.doc