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Several years ago the traditional two semester chemistry sequence taken by freshman nursing stude... more Several years ago the traditional two semester chemistry sequence taken by freshman nursing students was replaced by a one semester Physiological Chemistry course at our university. This one semester course focuses on biochemistry content, requiring that students have already mastered important, introductory concepts, such as bonding, in their high school course. Variation in academic backgrounds left many students struggling to integrate the new course work with their weak, foundation knowledge. To reduce student frustration and increase student learning, online tutorials were introduced into the course to broadly cover the background topics, enhancing the course content. Students could work collaboratively or individually on the tutorials. The online tutorials were scheduled in a sequence that allowed for integration of the reviewed concepts into higher-level course work. Faculty noticed an improvement in the ease at which students integrated the concepts from the tutorials into l...
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2002
pH-Dependent kinetic studies were performed with ribonuclease T 1 (RNase T 1 ) and its Glu46Ser, ... more pH-Dependent kinetic studies were performed with ribonuclease T 1 (RNase T 1 ) and its Glu46Ser, Lys41Met, and Lys41Thr mutants with GpC and polyinosinic acid (PolyI) as substrates. Plots of pH versus logðk cat =K M Þ for both substrates had ascending slopes that were significantly greater for RNase T 1 compared with Glu46Ser-RNase T 1 , which indicated that the c-carboxyl group of conserved Glu46 must be deprotonated (anionic) for maximal interaction with N(1)H and N(2)H of the guanine moiety of GpC or the N(1)H of the hypoxanthine moiety of PolyI. The involvement of the e-ammonium group of nonconserved Lys41 at the 2p subsite (i.e., for an RNA phosphate group two nucleotide positions 5 0 -upstream from the active site) was supported by comparisons of Lys41Met-RNase T 1 and Lys41Thr-RNase T 1 with wild-type. These mutants shared identical catalytic properties (i.e., k cat and K M ) with wild-type using GpC as a substrate. However, k cat =K M for both were identical with each other but lower than those for wild-type when PolyI was the substrate (PolyI has a phosphate group that could interact at a putative 2p site). The pH dependence of this latter difference can be interpreted as reflecting the loss of the 2p subsite interaction with the wild-type enzyme upon deprotonation of the e-ammonium group of Lys41. Subsite interactions for ribonucleases are shown to mainly increase k cat and result in an attenuated pH dependence of k cat =K M . Ó
Several years ago the traditional two semester chemistry sequence taken by freshman nursing stude... more Several years ago the traditional two semester chemistry sequence taken by freshman nursing students was replaced by a one semester Physiological Chemistry course at our university. This one semester course focuses on biochemistry content, requiring that students have already mastered important, introductory concepts, such as bonding, in their high school course. Variation in academic backgrounds left many students struggling to integrate the new course work with their weak, foundation knowledge. To reduce student frustration and increase student learning, online tutorials were introduced into the course to broadly cover the background topics, enhancing the course content. Students could work collaboratively or individually on the tutorials. The online tutorials were scheduled in a sequence that allowed for integration of the reviewed concepts into higher-level course work. Faculty noticed an improvement in the ease at which students integrated the concepts from the tutorials into l...
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2002
pH-Dependent kinetic studies were performed with ribonuclease T 1 (RNase T 1 ) and its Glu46Ser, ... more pH-Dependent kinetic studies were performed with ribonuclease T 1 (RNase T 1 ) and its Glu46Ser, Lys41Met, and Lys41Thr mutants with GpC and polyinosinic acid (PolyI) as substrates. Plots of pH versus logðk cat =K M Þ for both substrates had ascending slopes that were significantly greater for RNase T 1 compared with Glu46Ser-RNase T 1 , which indicated that the c-carboxyl group of conserved Glu46 must be deprotonated (anionic) for maximal interaction with N(1)H and N(2)H of the guanine moiety of GpC or the N(1)H of the hypoxanthine moiety of PolyI. The involvement of the e-ammonium group of nonconserved Lys41 at the 2p subsite (i.e., for an RNA phosphate group two nucleotide positions 5 0 -upstream from the active site) was supported by comparisons of Lys41Met-RNase T 1 and Lys41Thr-RNase T 1 with wild-type. These mutants shared identical catalytic properties (i.e., k cat and K M ) with wild-type using GpC as a substrate. However, k cat =K M for both were identical with each other but lower than those for wild-type when PolyI was the substrate (PolyI has a phosphate group that could interact at a putative 2p site). The pH dependence of this latter difference can be interpreted as reflecting the loss of the 2p subsite interaction with the wild-type enzyme upon deprotonation of the e-ammonium group of Lys41. Subsite interactions for ribonucleases are shown to mainly increase k cat and result in an attenuated pH dependence of k cat =K M . Ó