METABOLIC PATHWAYS

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1. Bioenergetics
1. Introduction
2. Gibb's Free Energy
3. Free Energy Changes during Reactions
4. Important Types of Reactions in Metabolism
5. Oxidation - Reduction Reactions
6. Redox Potential
7. Phosphoryl Group Transfer and ATP
8. Need for an Expression to Calculate Physiological DG
2. Enzymes
1. Introduction
2. Properties
3. How Enzymes Work
4. Transition State Stabilization (Haldane and Pauling)
5. Specific Action Catalytic Groups
6. Classification of Enzymes
7. Enzyme Kinetics
8. Enzyme Regulation
9. Reversible Inhibition
10. Allosteric Enzymes and Regulation
11. Irreversible Inhibition
12. Isoenzymes
13. Zymogens
3. Metabolism
1. Introduction
2. Types of Metabolic Pathways
3. Regulation
4. Carbohydrate Metabolism
1. Introduction
2. Major Pathways of Carbohydrate Metabolism
3. Glycolysis
4. Fates of Pyruvate
5. Citric Acid Cycle or TCA Cycle
6. Gluconeogenesis
7. Glycogen Metabolism
8. Glyoxylate cycle
9. Starch and Sucrose Synthesis
10. HMP Shunt or Pentose Phosphate Pathways
11. Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism
5. Electron Transport System and Photosynthesis
1. Introduction
2. Photosynthesis: Light and Dark Reaction
3. Photosynthetic Pigments
4. Photosystems
5. Photophosphorylation involving PS I and PS II
6. Carbon Fixation
7. CAM Cycle
6. Overview of Lipid Metabolism
1. Introduction
2. Functions of Lipids
3. Action of Lipases (Fate of Dietary Lipid)
4. b-Oxidation of Fatty Acids (Even No.)
5. Ketone Bodies
6. Biosynthesis of Fatty Acids
7. Elongation of Saturated Fatty Acid
8. Desaturation of Fatty Acid Chains
9. Biosynthesis of Triacylglycerol (Cytosol)
10. Cholesterol
11. Metabolism of Phospholipids
12. Synthesis of Spingolipids
7. Overview of Protein Metabolism
1. Introduction
2. Metabolic Fates of Amino Acids
3. General Aspects of Amino Acids Metabolism
4. Transfer of Amino Group by Glutamate
5. Urea Cycle
6. Pathways for Amino Acid Degradation
7. Nitrogen Cycle
8. Biosynthesis of Amino Acids
9. Amino Acid Biosynthetic Families: Grouped by Metabolic Precursors
10. Regulation of Amino Acid Synthesis

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