BIO206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protein Folding, Alpha Helix, Alpha And Beta Carbon
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The way in which aa are structured from the alpha carbon, their names, chemical properties of aa, and the side chains, recognize whether an aa is hydrophobic, polar, tutorial material etc. Have a general knowledge about the past experiments: what they talked about and what conclusion they reached, etc. Proteins are linear polymers of aa, have unique structure, take on a 3d structure which is imp for their biological fxns. The conformation is the final folded structure of the protein, this folding determined by the particular aa found in it because of the nature of the side chains on those aa. So many proteins can on this globular: spherical ball shaped. We can look at the organization from diff levels: Primary structure is the linear aa sequence of the protein, start at the n- terminus (amino end) to the c-terminus (carboxyl end) So proteins typically range from 50 aa to 2000 aa.
