Biochemistry laboratory manual for undergraduates an inquiry-based approach

Biochemistry laboratory manual for undergraduates - an inquiry based approach by Gerczei and Pattison is the first textbook on the market that uses a highly relevant model, antibiotic resistance, to teach seminal topics of biochemistry and molecular biology while incorporating the blossoming field o...

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Other Authors: Gerczei, Timea, author (author), Pattison, Scott, 1947-, author (editor), Rulka, Anna, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Warsaw, [Poland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter 2014
2014.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427705606719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Introducing the Bacterial Antibiotic Sensor Mini Project
  • 2 Identifying Conserved Elements in the Toxin Sensor and Designing Mutants to Test Whether They are Important for Function
  • 3 Designing Primers for Site-Directed Mutagenesis
  • 4 Performing Site-Directed Mutagenesis
  • 5 Purifying Mutant Toxin Sensor DNA from Bacterial Cells and Evaluating its Quality Using Agarose Gel Electrophoresis and UV Spectroscopy
  • 6 Preparing DNA Template for Mutant RNA Sensor Synthesis Using a Restriction Endonuclease
  • 7 Synthesizing the ykkCD Mutant Toxin Sensor RNA in vitro
  • 8 Purifying the ykkCD Mutant Toxin Sensor RNA and Evaluating its Purity Using Denaturing PAGE and UV spectrometry
  • 9 Evaluating the Ability of the ykkCD Toxin Sensor to Recognize the Antibiotic Tetracycline Using Fluorescent Quenching
  • 10 Evaluating Antibiotic Binding to Blood Serum Albumin Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
  • 11 Understanding the Importance of Buffers in Biological Systems
  • 12 Molecular Visualization of an Enzyme, Acetylcholinesterase
  • 13 Determining the Efficiency of the Enzyme Acetylcholine Esterase Using Steady-State Kinetic Experiment
  • 14 Separation of the Phosphatidylcholines Using Reverse Phase HPLC
  • List of Figures