Unit BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
- Course
- Pharmaceutical biotechnologies
- Study-unit Code
- GP003552
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ilaria Bellezza
- Teachers
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- Ilaria Bellezza
- Silvia Grottelli
- Hours
- 40 ore - Ilaria Bellezza
- 12 ore - Silvia Grottelli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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
- 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 and function of proteins
-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, with an approx. duration of 25min, is finalized demonstrate the knowledge and the understanding of the student.
- Extended program
- Aminoacids, Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary strucures, modifications that control protein activity.