BT21105: Biochem. Reaction Engg. And Bioenergetics
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| Course name | Biochem. Reaction Engg. And Bioenergetics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Biotechnology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-1-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Autumn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biochemical Reaction Engineering; Kinetics of homogeneous reactions; reaction mechanism; Temperature dependency from Arrhenius law; Theoretical prediction of rate constant: Interpretation of batch kinetic data; Kinetics of enzyme catalyzed reactions in free and immobilized states: Michaelis-Menten equation and its various modifications. Effects of External mass transfer in immobilized enzyme systems; analysis of intra-particle diffusion and reaction; Kinetics of substrate utilization, product formation and biomass production: Monod growth model and its various modifications; structured and unstructured kinetic rate models; Thermal death kinetics of cells and spores; medium and air sterilization. Chemical mechanisms of biological energy conversion in mitochondria and chloroplasts, Experimental studies and theories photosynthesis energy transfer kinetics; Cytochrome c oxidase (Cytochrome Oxidase Oxygen Heme) or photosystem II (Photosystem II Manganese Oxygen); bacteriorhodopsin proton pumping); DNA base recognition and replication fidelity; Gibbs Free Energy; Protein folding and stability; Ligand binding; Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interactions; Osmosis, Dialysis; Donnan Effect; Practical techniques e.g.: Isothermal Calorimetry (ITC); Spectroscopy; Fluorescence and Scanning Microscopy; X-ray diffraction
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| Day | 8:00-8:55 am | 9:00-9:55 am | 10:00-10:55 am | 11:00-11:55 am | 12:00-12:55 pm | 2:00-2:55 pm | 3:00-3:55 pm | 4:00-4:55 pm | 5:00-5:55 pm | |
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| Friday | In Dept | In Dept |