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Course Detail

Course Name Clinical Biochemistry and Proteomics
Course Code 22MMD512
Program M. Sc. Molecular Medicine(MLM)
Credits 3
Campuses Faridabad, Kochi

Syllabus

Unit 1

15 lectures

Carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism, Glycolysis; TCA cycle, Oxidative

Phosphorylation – Energetics and its regulation; Cori cycle; Glycogen Metabolism; Pentose phosphate pathway; Gluconeogenesis pathway and significance; Biosynthesis of fatty acids; Oxidation of fatty acids – Beta oxidation, alpha oxidation.

Unit 2

8 lectures

Structures & function of enzymes, mechanism of action of enzymes and its regulation; Kinetics of enzyme catalyzed reactions, Michaelis-Menten equation, Importance of Vmax, Km; Enzyme inhibition and activation.

Unit 3

6 lectures

Concept and scope of clinical biochemistry; Control of the blood glucose and associated clinical diseases; Reference range.

Unit 4

6 lectures

Proteome and proteomics research, how it is different from genomics; different types of proteomics, significance of sample preparation in proteomics, significance of choosing different methods for proteome analysis, gel-free and gel-based proteome analysis, labelled and label-free quantitative proteomics.

Unit 5

10 lectures

Principles of mass spectrometry; protein identification using mass spectrometry, protein fragmentation; peptide enrichment and separation; ionization and its importance; Time of Flight, MS/MS analysis, types of mass analyzers, peptide fragmentation and peptide sequencing; identification of proteins using search engines/programs; accuracy of identified proteins with respect to protein identity, significance of mass spectrometry in clinics, clinical proteomics and examples of clinical proteomics

Summary

Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of biology, chemistry and biotechnology

Total number of classes: 45

Preamble

The course intends to provide a basic understanding of the biochemical reactions; role of macromolecules and enzymes that govern the biochemical transformations and biochemical mechanisms responsible for common biochemical disorders; mass-spectrometry based proteomics for protein identification and quantitation, application of proteomics in the clinics for aiding in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases.

Course Outcome

CO1: Understand overall concept of cellular metabolism, energy storage and release, enzymes and their regulation CO2: Understand glucose homeostasis (pathways and hormonal regulation); glycogen metabolism, gluconeogenic pathway, fat metabolism. CO3: Understand the basic concepts and principles of clinical biochemistry and molecular mechanism of some common biochemical disorders CO4

CO1: Understand overall concept of cellular metabolism, energy storage and release, enzymes and their regulation

CO2: Understand glucose homeostasis (pathways and hormonal regulation); glycogen metabolism, gluconeogenic pathway, fat metabolism.

CO3: Understand the basic concepts and principles of clinical biochemistry and molecular mechanism of some common biochemical disorders

CO4: Understand the basic concepts of proteome, mass spectrometry and protein identification using database search engines.

CO5: Discuss how proteomics can contribute to a clinical setting.

Programme Outcomes (PO) (As given by NBA and ABET)

PO1: Bioscience Knowledge

PO2: Problem Analysis

PO3: Design/Development of Solutions

PO4: Conduct Investigations of complex problems

PO5: Modern tools usage

PO6: Bioscientist and Society

PO7: Environment and Sustainability

PO8: Ethics

PO9: Individual & Team work

PO10: Communication

PO11: Project management & Finance

PO12: Lifelong learning

PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 3 1 1 1 1
CO2 3 1 1 1
CO3 3 2 1 2 2 1
CO4 3 1 2 2 3 1
CO5 3 1 2 3 3 2 1

Program Specific Outcomes. (PSO)

PSO 1 – Biochemical organization and cellular complexity in function

PSO 2 – Biomolecules in Medicine

PSO 3 – Molecular dysregulation in diseases

PSO 4 – Molecular technology in diagnosis and therapy

PSO 5 – Cell based approaches in diagnosis and therapy

PSO 6 – Microorganisms in Medicine

PSO 7 – Nanoscale entities and its significance in Medicine

PSO 8 – Tissue architecture engineering in Medicine

PSO 9 – Compounds as drugs and its efficacy

PSO 10 – Bioinformatics and biological data use

PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO6 PSO7 PSO8 PSO9 PSO10
CO1 3 2 1
CO2 3 2 1
CO3 1 3 3 2 1
CO4 1 1 3 3
CO5 2 1 3 3

Evaluation Pattern: 50+50 = 100

Internal Assessment – 50% 
Periodical 1 Exam 20%
Periodical 2 Exam 20%
Continuous Assessment Assignment/ Test/ Quiz 10%
50%
End Semester Examination- 50% 
Theory Exam 50%
50%
Total 100%

Textbooks/ Reference Books

Textbooks:

  1. Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level Kindle Edition by Donald Voet (Author), Judith G. Voet (Author), Charlotte W. Pratt (Author) 5th edition 2016
  2. Nawin C. Mishra, “Introduction to Proteomics: Principles and Applications” Wiley, 2010, ISBN: 0471754021

Reference:

Lehniger Principles of biochemistry 7th Edition (2017), Publisher: WH Freeman, Authors Michael Cox, David L. Nelson.

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