Biochemistry laboratory manual for undergraduates : an inquiry-based approach /
Biochemistry Laboratory Manual for undergraduates is the first textbook on the market that uses a highly relevant model, antibiotic resistance, to teach seminal topics of biochemistry and molecular biology. Inclusion of a research project does not entail a limitation: this manual includes all classi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] :
De Gruyter Open,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introducing the Bacterial Antibiotic Sensor Mini Project
- 1.1. What are Antibiotics?
- 1.2. What is Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance?
- 1.3. How Do the Bacteria Detect Antibiotics In Its Environment?
- 1.4. How Does the ykkCD Sensor Exert Its Function?
- 1.5. What Do We Do During the Mini Project?
- 2. Identifying Conserved Elements in the Toxin Sensor and Designing Mutants to Test Whether They are Important for Function
- 2.1. Learning Objectives
- 2.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 2.3. Why is Sequence Conservation Important for Macromolecule Function, and How Do We Determine This?
- 2.4. Review of Nucleic Acid Properties
- 2.5. What is Bioinformatics?
- 2.6. Identifying Conserved Sequence Elements (Invariable Blocks)
- 2.7. Identifying Conserved Structural Elements
- BLAST Prelab
- Identifying Invariable Blocks in the Toxin Sensor Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- BLAst Problem Set
- Protein Properties Worksheet.
- Note continued: 3. Designing Primers for Site-Directed Mutagenesis
- 3.1. Learning Objectives
- 3.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 3.3. What is PCR? What are polymerases?
- 3.4. PCR Amplification of a Desired DNA Segment Of The Genome (Conventional Cloning)
- 3.5. Quickchange Site-Directed Mutagenesis
- Prelab Questions for Primer Design Lab
- Introduction to Primer Design Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- 4. Performing Site-Directed Mutagenesis
- 4.1. Learning Objective
- 4.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 4.3. Review of Nucleic Acid Structure
- 4.4. How do Polymerases Work?
- 4.5. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in Practice
- 4.6. Why Did PCR Only Become Widely Available in the 1980s?
- 4.7. Applications of PCR
- Prelab Questions for Site-Directed Mutagenesis
- Site-directed Mutagenesis Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- PCR Worksheet.
- Note continued: 5. Purifying Mutant Toxin Sensor DNA from Bacterial Cells and Evaluating its Quality Using Agarose Gel Electrophoresis and UV Spectroscopy
- 5.1. Learning Objective
- 5.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 5.3. Purification of Plasmid DNA from Bacterial Cell (Plasmid Prep)
- 5.4. Transformation
- 5.5. Cell Growth
- 5.6. Purification of Plasmid DNA from Bacterial Cells
- 5.7. Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
- 5.8. Application of Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
- 5.9. DNA Quality Control Using UV Spectroscopy
- Prelab Questions for Plasmid Prep
- DNA Purification Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- Electrophoresis Problem Set
- 6. Preparing DNA Template for Mutant RNA Sensor Synthesis Using a Restriction Endonuclease
- 6.1. Learning Objective
- 6.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 6.3. Synopsis
- 6.4. How do Restriction Endonucleases Work?
- 6.5. How do Restriction Enzymes Achieve Million-Fold Specificity?
- Note continued: 6.6. How Do We Judge Whether The Plasmid DNA is Successfully Linearized?
- 6.7. What are We Going to do in the Lab?
- Prelab Questions for DNA Linearization
- DNA Linearization Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- Worksheet
- Restriction Endonucleases
- Cloning Experiment Design
- Worksheet
- 7. Synthesizing the ykkCD Mutant Toxin Sensor RNA in vitro
- 7.1. Learning Objective
- 7.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 7.3. How do RNA Polymerases Work?
- 7.4. How Does Transcription Start?
- 7.5. How Does Transcription End?
- 7.6. Transcription in Practice
- 7.7. What Are We Going To Do Today?
- Prelab Questions for RNA Transcription
- RNA Synthesis Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- 8. Purifying the ykkCD Mutant Toxin Sensor RNA and Evaluating its Purity Using Denaturing Page and UV spectrometry
- 8.1. Learning Objective
- 8.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 8.3. RNA Purification Methods
- 8.4. Denaturing Page
- 8.5. Phenol/chloroform Extraction.
- Note continued: 8.6. Column Purification
- Prelab Questions for RNA Purification
- RNA Purification Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- 9. Evaluating the Ability of the ykkCD Toxin Sensor to Recognize the Antibiotic Tetracycline Using Fluorescent Quenching
- 9.1. Learning Objective
- 9.2. Mini Project Flowchart
- 9.3. What is Binding Affinity (KD)?
- 9.4. What is Fluorescence?
- 9.5. How Do We Measure Binding Affinity of the Tetracycline-Sensor RNA Complex?
- 9.6. How do We Evaluate Binding Affinity?
- 9.7. How do We Analyze Data?
- Analysis of Binding Experiments
- Binding Assays Prelab
- YkkCD sensor RNA
- Tetracycline Binding Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- 10. Evaluating Antibiotic Binding to Blood Serum Albumin Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- 10.1. Learning Objectives
- 10.2. Biological Role of Serum Albumin
- 10.3. Fluoroquinoline Antibiotics
- 10.4. Protein Structure, Aromatic Amino Acids, and Fluorescence.
- Note continued: 10.5. Measuring Fluorescence
- 10.6. Synchronous Spectroscopy
- 10.7. Data Analysis
- Albumin
- Levofloxacin Binding Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- 11. Understanding the Importance of Buffers in Biological Systems
- 11.1. Learning Objectives
- 11.2. Introduction
- 11.3. Buffer Preparation
- Prelab for the Buffer Lab
- Buffer Lab Report Outline and Point Distributions
- Buffer Problem Set
- 12. Molecular Visualization of an Enzyme, Acetylcholinesterase
- 12.1. Learning Objectives
- 12.2. Introduction and Background
- 12.3. Introduction to Molecular Visualization Using the Program Chimera
- 12.4. Analysis of Acethylcholinesterase Using the Computer Visualization Program Chimera
- Molecular Visualization of Acethylcholinesterase Prelab
- Acetylcholinesterase Characteristics Worksheet
- 13. Determining the Efficiency of the Enzyme Acetylcholine Esterase Using Steady-State Kinetic Experiment
- 13.1. Learning Objective.
- Note continued: 13.2. Measuring the Catalytic Efficiency of Acetylcholinesterase
- 13.3. Running a Steady-State Enzyme Kinetics Experiment
- 13.4. Designing a Steady-State Experiment
- Prelab for AchE Kinetics
- Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- Enzyme Kinetics Worksheet
- 14. Separation of the Phosphatidylcholines Using Reverse Phase HPLC
- 14.1. Learning Objective
- 14.2. Phosphatidylcholines
- 14.3. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- 14.4. Quantifying Chromatography
- HPLC of Lipids Prelab
- HPLC of Phosphatidylcholines Lab Report Outline and Point Distribution
- HPLC Problem Set.