BIOENGR C105
Engineering of Bioconjugates
Bioengineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Highly recommended: one organic chemistry course. Bioconjugate chemistry is science of coupling biomolecules for wide range of applications. Oligonucleotides may be coupled to one surface in gene chip, or one protein may be coupled to one polymer to enhance its stability in serum. Wide variety of bioconjugates are used in delivery of pharmaceuticals, in sensors, in medical diagnostics, and in tissue engineering. Basic concepts of chemical ligation, including choice and design of conjugate linkers depending on type of biomolecule and desired application, such as degradable versus nondegradable linkers. Presentation and discussion of design and synthesis of synthetic bioconjugates for some sample applications. Concurrently scheduled with course C205.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: Chemistry 20A, 20B, 20L.
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
BIOENGR C105
- BIOENGR C107Polymer Chemistry for Bioengineers
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





