Biochemistry detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biochemistry is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO BIOMOLECULES – CARBOHYDRATES: 9
Basic principles of organic chemistry, role of carbon, types of functional groups, chemical, nature of water, pH and biological buffers, bio molecules structure and properties of Carbohydrates (mono, di, oligo & polysaccharides) Proteoglycans, glucosaminoglycans. mutarotation, glycosidic bond, reactions of monosaccharides, reducing sugars. Starch, glycogen, cellulose and chitin. Proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans. hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate
Unit II
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF OTHER BIOMOLECULES 9
Structure and properties of Important Biomolecules.
Lipids: fatty acids, glycerol, saponification, iodination, hydrogenation, phospholipids, glycolipids, sphingolipids, cholesterol, steroids, prostaglandins.
Protein: Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, measurement, structures, hierarchy of organization primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures, glycoproteins, lipoproteins. Determine of primary structure.
Nucleic acids: purines, pyrimidines, nucleoside, nucleotide, RNA, DNA-Watson-Crick structure of DNA, reactions, properties, measurement, nucleoprotein complexes
Unit III
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Unit IV
INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM AND REGULATION 9
Fatty acid synthesis and oxidation, reactions of amino acids, deamination, transamination and decarboxylation, urea cycle, Bioenergetics – High energy compounds, electronegative potential of compounds, respiratory chain, ATP cycle, calculation of ATP yield during oxidation of glucose and fatty acids.
Unit V
PROTEIN TRANSPORT AND DEGRADATION 9
Protein targeting, signal sequence, secretion; Folding, Chaperone and targeting of organelle proteins, Protein degradation, receptor-mediated endocytosis, turnover.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- understand the basic concepts on carbohydrates.
- learn the concepts of proteins
- gather knowledge on importance of nucleic acids
- understand the knowledge on lipids
- gather knowledge on intermediary metabolism and their pathways
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Berg, Jeremy M. et al. “Biochemsitry”, 6th Edition, W.H. Freeman & Co., 2006.
- Murray, R.K., etal “Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry”, 31st Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2018.
- Voet, D. and Voet, J.G., “Biochemistry”, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc.,2010.
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