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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Biochemistry III - MC280P24B
Title: Biochemie III (b)
Czech title: Biochemie III (b)
Form of teaching: lecture+seminar
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemistry Education (31-280)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2021
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 20
Maximum number of enrolled students: 20
Min. number of students: 2
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Level: specialized
Additional information: http://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1463
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Václav Martínek, Ph.D.
Is incompatible with: MC280P24
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Annotation -
Biochemistry III (b) is aimed at older students of the Master's program of Teacher Education of Chemistry. The lecture should help students prepare for the final exam in biochemistry at the Department of Chemical Education.
The lecture deals with the area of general biochemistry in the context of the main topics of the national RVP framework program.
Last update: Martínek Václav, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
Literature -

Color Atlas of Biochemistry - Koolman J. et al. 2nd edition 2005

Fundamentals of Biochemistry - Voet et al. 2nd edition 2006

Biochemistry - Stryer et al. 7th edition 2007

Last update: Martínek Václav, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (25.04.2012)
Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme -

At least 80% attendance and presentation of the given biochemical topic is required. To pass the exam, it is also necessary to pass a comprehensive test and an oral exam.

Last update: Martínek Václav, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
Syllabus -

• The composition of living matter, water, cell, viruses, cytoskeleton

• Carbohydrates: classification, structure, function

• Amino acids: classification, structure, properties, peptides

• Proteins: structure, distribution, complex proteins

• Enzymes: classification, reaction equilibrium, enzyme kinetics, inhibition, regulation (allosteric)

• Nucleic acids: building blocks, types, structure

• Replication, transcription, translation, protein synthesis

• Lipids and biomembranes: classification, properties and function, metabolism (β-oxidation), biosynthesis, bile acids, ketone bodies

• Vitamins, cofactors and "macroergic 'compounds, muscle contraction

• Glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, Pentose cycle

• Oxidative decarboxylation, citric acid cycle, respiratory chain (oxidative vs substrate phosphorylation)

• Basic relations in metabolism, classification of organisms, catabolism, anabolism

• Human biochemistry I: digestion (enzymes), proteolysis, proteases, blood (O2 transport, hemoglobin, erythrocyte)

• Human biochemistry II: hormones, nervous system (neurotransmitters), signaling molecules, metabolism of xenobiotics

• Photosynthesis, Calvin Cycle, C3, C4 and CAM plants

Last update: VACMAR/NATUR.CUNI.CZ (20.04.2011)
The course does not include work placement
 
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