Information Package / Course Catalogue
Enzyme Kinetics
Course Code: BYK604
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To teach the structure, types, mechanisms of action and inhibition of enzymes that form the basis of life. Quantitative properties of enzyme working mechanisms are explained with numerical examples.

Course Content

Definition and history of enzymes, Substrate specificity regulation of enzymatic activity, allosteric enzymes, chemical kinetics, the Michaelis-Menten equation, kinetic data analysis, enzyme inhibition, factors affecting enzyme activity, two-substrate enzymatic reactions, cofactors and coenzymes, active site-catalytic region, determination and meaning of the Km, Vmax and kcat parameters, examples of applications of enzyme kinetics.

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