Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

BCH 403 — Metabolic Regulations

BCH department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain the central role of Kreb’s cycle in macromolecular metabolism
• identify the inter-relationship between metabolic pathways of macromolecules
• describe how a product of one cycle can inhibit another pathway; and
• identify the need to regulate various metabolic pathways and how the cell does it

Course contents

The relationship of Krebs' Cycle to protein, carbohydrate, lipid and nucleic acid metabolism. Integration of metabolic pathways. Turn-over rates and metabolic pools. Regulation of enzymes of metabolic pathways-feedback inhibition versus enzyme synthesis. Catabolite repression, end product repression.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study BCH 403.

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