Faculty of Science

Objectives

To enable students understand the structures and properties of energy-generating biomolecules and relate the structures to functions.

Contents

Sugars; Monosaccharides; Stereo-isomers and the ring-structures; Derivatives of monosaccharides; Phosphate esters, acids and lactones; Amino-sugars and glycosides; Oligosaccharides, structure, stability and formation of glycosidic bonds; Polysaccharides-storage polysaccharides, glycosamino glycans; Bacterial cell wall polysaccharides; Glycoproteins and glycolipids; N- and O-glycosidic glycans; glycoproteins; Lipids: Definition and physico-chemical properties; Fatty acids; Triacylglycerols; Waxes; Sphingolipids; Cholesterol , steroids and bile acids; Terpenes-Carotenoidss; Prostaglandins; Lipo-proteins; Vitamins: Structures and functions.