Program namemaster degree in Applied Biochemistry
: purification of membrane proteins Organization of α-transmembrane helices
- Protein engineering
Role of the 3D structure of proteins in the design of new drugs
Industrial enzymes
Food protein engineering
De novo proteins - Polysaccharides
Homo and heteroglycans (Starch, glycogen, cellulose, pectin …) Glycosaminoglycans (Definition,
classification, structures and roles) Poteoglycans (Definition, classification, structures and roles) - Glycoproteins
N-linked glycoproteins (Definition, classification, biosynthesis and roles) O-linked glycoproteins (Definition,
biosynthesis and roles) Glycoproteins anchored by GPI (Definition, biosynthesis and roles) Inhibitors of
synthesis of glycoproteins
Post-translational modifications of proteins - Lipids
Lipoproteins (Definition, structures, classification, roles and metabolism) Cholesterol (Structure,
biosynthesis, roles, catabolism) - Lipophilic hormones
General information about hormones
Structures, biosynthesis and roles of lipophilic hormones
Nuclear receptor superfamily
Mechanisms of action - LPS and bacterial exotoxins
- TD
- TD1: Protein engineering
- Others (Personal work)
-Preparation of TD series
-Bibliographic research.
Semester : 1
EU title: Fundamental
Title of the subject: Molecular and experimental pharmacology
Teaching objectives (Describe what the student is supposed to have acquired as skills after success at this
material – maximum 3 lines).
Know the basics of pharmacology, the different classes of drugs and their mode of action in the animal organism,
study of the mechanism of action of drugs as well as the study of the interactions of the latter and their fate in the body.
Recommended previous knowledge (brief description of the knowledge required to be able to follow this
teaching – Maximum 2 lines).
Biochemistry, cell physiology
Content of the subject (it is mandatory to indicate the detailed content of the Program and personal work)
Program - Courses
- Molecular pharmacology
Basic notions of pharmacology (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics,…)
- Painkillers
- Anti-inflammatories: INS and INNS
- The drugs of the SN :
The sympaticomimetics/The sympatolytics The anti-epileptics - The anti-vitamin K
- Drugs of the digestive system
- Drugs of the cardiac system
- Anti-cancer drugs
- Experimental pharmacology
- Development of a drug: its origin and its marketing
- Phytopharmacology
- Cell culture.
- TD
- TD1: Molecular pharmacology
- TD2: Experimental pharmacology
- Others (Personal work)
-Preparation of TD series
-Bibliographic research.
Semester : 1
EU title: Methodology
Title of the subject: Biological analysis methods
Teaching objectives (Describe what the student is supposed to have acquired as skills after success at this
material – maximum 3 lines).
Know the different methods used for the identification and quantification of biological substances.
Recommended previous knowledge (brief description of the knowledge required to be able to follow this
teaching – Maximum 2 lines).
Biochemistry, Biophysics
Content of the subject (it is mandatory to indicate the detailed content of the Program and personal work)
Program - Courses
Spectroscopic methods
- Reminder about visible UV
- Infrared
- Mass spectroscopy
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- TD
-TD1: UV-visible
-TD2: Infrared.
-TD3: Mass spectroscopy.
-TD4: Nuclear magnetic resonance. - Others (Personal work)
-Preparation of TD series.
-Bibliographic research.
Semester : 1
EU title: Methodology Subject title: Biostatistics
Teaching objectives (Describe what the student is supposed to have acquired as skills after success at this
material – maximum 3 lines).