The four levels of protein structure, the bonds that hold each level together, and how heat, pH, urea, and SDS unfold proteins, written for the MCAT.
What Km, Vmax, and kcat mean, how to read a Michaelis-Menten curve, and how to pull the numbers out of a Lineweaver-Burk plot, with a worked example.
Derive the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, then use it for buffers, the bicarbonate system in blood, amino acids, and drug ionization, with worked examples.
A side-by-side guide to the four reversible inhibition types, how each changes Km and Vmax, and how to recognize them on a Lineweaver-Burk plot.
Learn the seven EC enzyme classes, what reaction each catalyzes, the naming clues that give them away, and the exceptions that fool test takers.
How to predict the charge, pI, and titration behavior of any amino acid for the MCAT, with the side chain pKa values worth memorizing.