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UNIT V CANCER DETECTION AND THERAPY 9
Cancer screening and early detection, tumor markers, advances in cancer detection, Different forms of
therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, gene therapy, etc, prediction of aggressiveness of cancer. Use of
signal targets towards therapy of cancer.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of this course student will be able
To interpret signal transduction pathways and cell cycle in cancer
To analyse the risk factors and stages of cancer
To learn oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes
To evaluate cancer metastasis and angiogenesis
To analyse chemo, radiation and advanced therapy for cancer
TEXTBOOKS
1. Lewis J Kleinsmith, ―Principles of Cancer Biology‖ Pearson new int. Edition, 2013.
REFERENCES
1. King, Roger J.B. ―Cancer Biology‖ Addison Wesley Longman, 1996.
2. Ruddon, Raymond W. ―Cancer Biology‖ IIIrd Edition . Oxford University Press, 1995.
3. Weinberg, R.A. ―The Biology of Cancer‖ Garland Science, 2007
4. McDonald, F etal., ― Molecular Biology of Cancer‖ IInd Edition. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
BT17E66 BIOCONJUGATE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
L T P C 3
0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
To understand the functional targets and chemistry of active groups.
To gain knowledge about the linkers and cleavable reagent systems.
To know about enzyme, nucleic acid modification and its application in bioconjugation
UNIT I FUNCTIONAL TARGETS 9
Modification of Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins – Modification of sugars, polysaccharides and
glycoconjugates – modification of nucleic acids and oligonucleotides.
UNIT II CHEMISTRY OF ACTIVE GROUPS 9
Amine reactive chemical reactions – Thiol reactive chemical reactions – carboxylate reactive chemical
reactions – hydroxyl reactive chemical reactions – aldehyde and ketone reactive chemical reactions –
Photoreactive chemical reactions.
UNIT III BIOCONJUGATE REAGENTS 9
Zero length cross linkers – Homobifunctional cross linkers – Classification, structure, properties and uses of
NHS esters, imido esters, sulfhydryl reactive cross linkers, difuluro benzene derivatives and homobifunctional
esters. Heterobifunctional cross linkers – amine and sulfhydryl reactive cross linkers, carboxyl and sulfhydryl
reactive CLs, sulfhydryl and photoreactive CLs, arginine and photoreactive CLs. Trifunctional cross linkers –
Cleavable reagent systems.
UNIT IV ENZYME AND NUCLEIC ACID MODIFICATION AND CONJUGATION 9
Properties of common enzymes – Activated enzymes for conjugation – biotinylated enzymes – chemical
modification of nucleic acids – biotin labelling of DNA- enzyme conjugation to DNA.
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