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Course Orientation

Oregon State University. (n.d.). Free educational resources. Biochemistry & Biophysics. https://biochem.oregonstate.edu/undergraduate/educational-resources

Unit 1: Cells, Water, and Buffers

Biochemistry. (2025, November 29). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biochemistry&oldid=1324734856
Google. (n.d.). Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.ca/
Carbon. (2025, December 7). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carbon&oldid=1326098055
Hydrogen. (2025, December 3). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hydrogen&oldid=1325460339
Nitrogen. (2025, December 8). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nitrogen&oldid=1326383524
Oxygen. (2025, December 3). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxygen&oldid=1325563075
Calcium. (2025, December 8). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calcium&oldid=1326405313
Phosphorus. (2025, December 9). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phosphorus&oldid=1326564918
Eukaryote. (2025, December 11). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eukaryote&oldid=1326827372
Prokaryote. (2025, November 17). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prokaryote&oldid=1322692452
Ahern, K. (2011, September 26). #01 biochemistry introductory lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHqBIemOrm8
Ahern, K. (2011, September 29). #02 biochemistry buffers lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAHC-RCfp4I

Unit 2: Energy

Ahern, K. (2011, November 13). #20 biochemistry metabolic controls/energy lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2fG8PnOWk
Ahern, K. (2011, November 14). #21 biochemistry glycolysis lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aB74Av2mFA
Redox. (2025, December 2). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redox&oldid=1325409832
Thermodynamics. (2026, March 21). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thermodynamics&oldid=1344617998
Gibbs free energy. (2026, April 2). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gibbs_free_energy&oldid=1346684211
Biological thermodynamics. (2026, February 24). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_thermodynamics&oldid=1340231693
Ahern, K. (2012, January 23). #32 biochemistry nerve transmission/mitochondria lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TVwxvgR60
Ahern, K. (2012, January 25). #33 biochemistry electron transport/oxidative phosphorylation lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alp3rovd9M0
Ahern, K. (2012, January 27). #34 biochemistry oxidative phosphorylation/respiratory control lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9N7Kb0Xvik
Ahern, K. (2012, June 5). #34 BB350 photosynthesis - Kevin Ahern's biochemistry online [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXnIWROLRU
ATP hydrolysis. (2025, February 9). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ATP_hydrolysis&oldid=1274795743
Futile cycle. (2025, September 1). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Futile_cycle&oldid=1308982214

Unit 3: Structures and Functions

Ahern, K. (2011, October 1). #03 biochemistry amino acids lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wxqQol0UU
Ahern, K. (2011, October 3). #04 biochemistry protein primary/secondary structure lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYpayL4kWQ
Ahern, K. (2011, October 5). #05 biochemistry protein tertiary/quaternary structure lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PROvIOTno_g
Ahern, K. (2011, October 12). #08 biochemistry hemoglobin lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga9O62_lkrE
Ahern, K. (2011, October 16). #09 biochemistry hemoglobin II/enzymes I lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcSJ8ULnI-k
Amino acid. (2026, March 27). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amino_acid&oldid=1345680550
Ahern, K. (2011, November 2). #16 biochemistry blood clotting/carbohydrates I lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiP5eI5uh-4
Ahern, K. (2011, November 4). #17 biochemistry carbohydrates II lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 450/550 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp8dXdeqvPQ
Peptidoglycan. (2026, February 10). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peptidoglycan&oldid=1337652429
Ahern, K. (2012, January 13). #30 biochemistry lipids and membranes lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te80DQCm078
Biological membrane. (2026, April 27). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_membrane&oldid=1351305296
Lipoprotein. (2026, April 30). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lipoprotein&oldid=1351761980
Ahern, K. (2012, January 18). #31 biochemistry membrane transport lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXeffMe1W0
Ahern, K. (2012, January 23). #32 biochemistry nerve transmission/mitochondria lecture for Kevin Ahern's BB 451/551 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TVwxvgR60

Unit 4: Catalysis

Unit 5: Flow of Genetic Information

Unit 6: Metabolism I

Unit 7: Metabolism II

Unit 8: Signalling

Unit 9: Techniques

Unit 10: Putting it all Together

Assignments

Assignment 1
Talhaoui, I., Shafirovich, V., Liu, Z., Saint-Pierre, C., Akishev, Z., Matkarimov, B.T., et al. (2015, April.) Oxidatively generated Guanine(C8)-Thymine(N3) intrastrand cross-links in double-stranded DNA are repaired by base excision repair pathways. Journal of Biochemistry, 290: 14610, doi:10.1074/jbc.M115.647487,
Assignment 2
Buchner, D.A., Charrier, A., Srinivasan, E., Wang, L., Paulsen, M.T., Ljungman, M., et al. (2015, Jan.) Zinc Finger Protein 407 (ZFP407) regulates insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and glucose transporter 4 (Glut4) mRNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290: 6376-6386. DOI 10.1074/jbc.M114.623736
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