- Docente: Bruno Andrea Melandri
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biotechnologies (cod. 0090)
Learning outcomes
This monothematic Course deals with the structure and function of protein complexes involved in transmembrane trasport processes. This includes also severael respiratory or photosynthetic complexes operating as protonic pumps.
Course contents
The Course will describe some protein structures on the basis of the concepts learned in Biochemistry I.
The Course will describe several examples of transmembrane proteins for the transport of ions and metabolites. Structures of the glycerol facilitator, of porins and of aquaporins. Ionic channels (potassium channel), both unregulated and ligand- or voltage-gated.
The Course will deal with primary transport systems, such as ABC transporters, Ca-ATPase and mitochondrial F-type ATP synthases.
The Course will be concluded with the discussion of some respiratory or photosynthetic membrane complexes, such as the bc1 and b6f complexes, terminal oxidases, bacterial photosynthetic rection centers and PSI and PSII of oxygenic photosynthesis.
Readings/Bibliography
C. Branden and J.Tooze, Introduzione alla struttura delle proteine, Zanichelli, Bologna 2001
Teaching methods
Formal oral teaching
Assessment methods
Computer-aided oral examination
Teaching tools
Supplementary material will be directly provided by the teacher in electronic format.
Office hours
See the website of Bruno Andrea Melandri