BIORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The course aims to provide the student with specialist knowledge on some of the topics commonly dealt with by Bio-Organic chemistry.

- The most recent developments in the field of the chemical synthesis of oligonucleotides and proteins.
- Biopharmacological properties of normal or modified antisense oligonucleotides, as well as the use of oligonucleotides in the field of RNA-interference.
- Mechanistic aspects in the working of some enzymes. Enzymatic biotechnologies.
- The role of substrate-receptor interactions in the field of pharmacologically active natural compounds.

- H. Dugas, Bioorganic Chemistry (3rd ed.) Springer, New York

- M. Page and A. Williams, Organic & Bio-0rganic Mechanisms, Longman, Singapore.