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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biochemistry: Biomolecules, Methods, and Mechanisms

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Enhance your scientific thinking and data analysis skills with this in-depth adventure through biochemistry.

Syllabus

  • How to apply the scientific method to pursue research questions.
  • How to analyze protein purification schemes.
  • How scientists determine the structure of a protein.
  • How structure, allostery, and the Bohr effect influence hemoglobin function.
  • How to interpret graphs, plot behaviors, and calculate constants related to enzyme function.
  • How pumps, transporters, and channels differ to regulate molecule transfer across membranes.
  • How G proteins play a key role in signaling.

Taught by

Michael Yaffe, Mary Ellen Wiltrout, Darcy Gordon, and Monika Avello

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