LEARN FROM INDIA!

Ok, these videos are a little hard to understand and it's not the best quality, but they go over a great wealth of information in a very thorough textbook style way. The introductions of each movie are a little too long so you might want to fast forward. But, thank you Prof. S. Dasgupta at the Dept of Chemistry at IIT in Kharagpur!! Guy and Girls, I know this is going to be hard to get through, (it's around 30 hours) but march through it. Pretend its the greatest secret ever been told. It is! We are peering through the rabbit hole fellas. Keep reminding yourself of that. Before we can work with nature, we need to really get to know nature, hang out her, and become best buddies. Now psyche yourself up, forgive prof. Dasgupta's hard to understand English accent, and watch all these movies!

Lecture - 1 Amino Acids I



Lecture - 2 Amino Acids II



Lecture - 3 Protein Structure - I




Lecture - 4 Protein structure II



Lecture - 05 Protein Structure III



Lecture - 6 Protein Structure 4



Lecture - 7 Enzymes I



Lecture - 8 Enzymes 2



Lecture - 9 Enzymes III



Lecture - 10 Enzyme Mechanisms I



Lecture - 11 Enzyme Mechanisms II



Lecture - 12 Myoglobin and Hemoglobin



Lecture - 13 Lipids and Membranes 1



Lecture - 14 Lipids and Membranes II



Lecture - 15 Membrane Transport



Lecture - 16 Carbohydrates I



Lecture - 17 Carbohydrates II



Lecture - 18 Vitamins and Coenzymes 1



Lecture - 19 Vitamins and Coenzymes II



Lecture - 20 Nucleic Acids 1



Lecture - 21 Nucleic Acids II



Lecture - 22 Nucleic Acids III



Lecture - 23 Bioenergetics 1



Lecture - 24 Bioenergetics II



Lecture - 25 Metabolism I



Lecture - 26 Metabolism II



Lecture - 27 Metabolism III



Lecture - 28 Overview of the Course

MicroBio: Amino Acids

Let's take a moment to look at amino acids.

WIKI! An amino acid is a molecule containing both amine and carboxyl functional groups. These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino acids with the general formula H₂NCHRCOOH, where R is an organic substituent.^[1] In the alpha amino acids, the amino and carboxylate groups are attached to the same carbon, which is called the α–carbon. The various alpha amino acids differ in which side chain (R group) is attached to their alpha carbon. They can vary in size from just a hydrogen atom in glycine through a methyl group in alanine to a large heterocyclic group in tryptophan.

Amino acids are critical to life, and have a variety of roles in metabolism. One particularly important function is as the building blocks of proteins, which are linear chains of amino acids. Amino acids are also important in many other biological molecules, such as forming parts of coenzymes, as in S-adenosylmethionine, or as precursors for the biosynthesis of molecules such as heme. Due to this central role in biochemistry, amino acids are very important in nutrition.