Unit BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
- Course
- Pharmaceutical biotechnologies
- Study-unit Code
- GP003552
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ilaria Bellezza
- Teachers
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- Ilaria Bellezza
- Hours
- 52 ore - Ilaria Bellezza
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline biotecnologiche comuni
- Academic discipline
- BIO/10
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
1CFU english - Contents
- Aminoacids, Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary strucures, modifications that control protein activity.
- Reference texts
- Nelson, Cox Principi di Biochimica di Lenninger, Zanichelli
- Educational objectives
- The main goal of the course is to provide students with the basics to understand the properties of proteins as possible pharmacological targets.
The main skills acquired will be:
-Knowledge of the spatial organization of proteins and the interactions that stabilize it
- Understanding the structure of proteins based on their function
-Consideration of the major changes that govern the activity of proteins. - Prerequisites
- The understanding of most of the topics requires the knowledge of general biochemistry. Knowledge of these issues is a prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- lectures and laboratory activities
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exams of theoretical nature, consisting of questions covering the topics addressed. The exam is finalised demonstrate the knowledge and the understanding of the student.
- Extended program
- Aminoacids, Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary strucures, modifications that control protein activity.