Professor
Charles G. Riordan
LDL 211
x1073
riordan@udel.edu
Office Hours - MF 9:00 - 10:00
am
or by appointment
Topics to be discussed: (subject to
change)
Week
1-
Introduction and overview of metals in biology
Week
2-
Choice, transport and storage of metal ions
Week
3-
Metal chaperones, transporters and metalloregulatory sensors
Week
4-
Electron transfer sites and long distance electron transfer
Week
5-
Dioxygen - uptake and transport
Week
6-
Dioxygen - activation and utilization
Week
7-
Protective enzymes - SOD, catalase, peroxidase
Week
8-
Nitrogenase
Week
9-
Photosynthesis
Week
10-
Bioorganometallic chemistry- B12 and nickel enzymes
Week
11-
Hydrogenases
Week
12-
Radical-generating enzymes; DNA-binding
proteins
Week
13-
Metals in medicine
Departmental Seminars/Colloquia of
special note:
March
10 – Bill Tolman, Minnesota, Colloquium- POSTPONED
April
14 – Bob Crabtree, Yale, Inorganic Seminar- POSTPONED