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Question: Diabetes and obesity are two metabolic diseases characterized by insulin resistance and a low-grade inflammation. Seeking an inflammatory factor causative of the onset of insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetes, we have identified bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a triggering factor. We found that normal endotoxemia increased or decreased during the fed […]

Enzyme Kinetics with ?-glucosidase The lab report for the BM327 Biochemistry class will focus on Laboratory 3 (Enzyme assays with ?-glucosidase). Students will also be expected to apply knowledge from other laboratory sessions (Lab 1, Virtual Protein Purification; Lab 4, Functionality of Proteins) to outline a procedure for the purification of […]

Shown here are the amino acid sequences of the wild-type and three mutant forms of a short protein. Use this information to answer the following questions: Wild type: mer-trp-tyr-arg-gly-ser-pro-thrMutant 1: met-trpMutant 2: met-trp-his-arg-gly-ser-pro-thrMutant 3: met-cys-ile-val-val-val-gln-his Using Figure 13-7, predict the type of mutation that occurred leading to each altered protein.For […]

Biodiversity is the variety of species living in the world.  Biodiversity is important for the survival of species because we are all part of something much greater than ourselves.  We need a variety of species to provide us with our food supply.  Each species have to depend on another species […]