CHEM C279

Biological Inorganic Chemistry

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Role of metal ions in biology. Topics include interactions of metal ions and metallocofactors with proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules; mechanisms of metal ion transport and storage; metallocofactor biosynthesis; hydrolytic chemistry; biological electron transfer; metalloenzymes; metals in medicine. Concurrently scheduled with course C179.

S/U or letter grading.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 153A (or 153AH), 171.

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all of

CHEM 171
one of
- CHEM 153A
- CHEM 153AH

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

CHEM C279

CHEM 153ABiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
- CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
  - CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules1 more beneath
- CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopyanother path to it
CHEM 153AHBiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism (Honors)

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