Topic
|
Subject |
|
1 |
Background
Kinetics
Enthalpy,
entropy and free energy
Molecular
interactions |
|
2 |
The hydrogen bond
Ions
The
hydrophobic effect
Small molecules
|
|
3 |
Protein monomers and oligomers
Amino
acids
The
peptide bond
Torsion angles Phi
and Psi |
|
4 |
Protein secondary structure
alpha-Helix
beta-Sheet
Loops and turns |
|
5 |
Protein Folds
Fibrous
proteins
alpha-Helical proteins
alpha-Helical/beta-Sheet proteins
Anti-parallel beta-sheet proteins |
|
6 |
Protein/Metal Interactions
Metals Page
|
|
6a |
Protein/Nucleotide Interactions
Rossman Fold Page
|
|
7
|
Nucleic acid structure
ribose/deoxyribose
phosphodiester backbone
bases
base pairs, triplets and quartets
A,B,Z conformation
Supercoiling
|
|
7a |
RNA
motifs
tRNA
Ribosome
|
|
8 |
Interactions of nucleic acids with
small molecules
Water
Magnesium
Spermine
Minor
groove binders
Intercalators
and Bis-intercalators |
|
9 |
Interactions of nucleic acids with
proteins
Helix-turn-helix
Zinc
Fingers
ZIP
Helix-loop-helix
Beta-ribbon
Restriction
and Modification Enzymes
tRNA synthetases
Rev
response element/rev peptide
Polymerases
Nucleosome |
|
10 |
Catalysis
Enzyme
active sites, Serine
Proteases, Ribozymes, DNAzymes |
|
11 |
Enzymes
that bind nucleotides
Structure of Viruses
Recognition of Foreign Molecules by the Immune System |
|
12 |
phylogony |
|
12 |
Databases
PDB,
NDB,
CSD, Genbank,
PubMed,
Science Citation
Index, CATH |
|
13 |
Display and Manipulation
Rasmol
Tutorial (download
Rasmol) |