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3: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins

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  • 3.1: Amino Acids and Peptides
    This document provides an in-depth exploration of amino acids and their structural, chemical, and functional properties in biochemistry. It discusses their unique structural characteristics, focusing on stereochemistry, chirality, and acid-base properties. The document also examines how amino acid side chains influence protein function, detailing peptide bond formation and the significance of variations and modifications.
  • 3.2: The Structure of Proteins- An Overview
    This page covers the fundamentals of protein structure, detailing primary through quaternary levels. Primary structure involves the amino acid sequence, secondary structure focuses on repetitive motifs like ??-helices and ??-sheets, tertiary structure describes 3D folding, and quaternary structure encompasses subunit organization. It also explores peptide bond formation, protein stability through chemical interactions, and methods for protein structure determination.
  • 3.3: Protein Purification
    The page describes the key concepts and steps involved in protein purification and characterizes different techniques used in the purification process. It outlines various chromatographic methods such as ion exchange, size-exclusion, hydrophobic interaction, and affinity chromatography. Additionally, it explains electrophoresis methods like SDS-PAGE and 2D electrophoresis.
  • 3.4: Analyses of Protein Structure
    The page provides an extensive overview of the methods used to determine and analyze protein structures, focusing on techniques such as mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations. It discusses how these techniques elucidate protein structures at various levels of resolution from low (concentration, secondary structure) to high (3D structure analysis).
  • 3.5: Antibodies in Quantitation and In Vivo Detection
    The page details the fundamentals of antibodies in biochemistry, focusing on their structure, function, and the techniques used to utilize them. Key areas include understanding antibody-antigen interactions, exploring quantitation methods like ELISA, and discussing techniques like immunohistochemistry (IHC) used for detecting proteins in vivo.
  • 3.6: Chapter 3 Questions


This page titled 3: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins is shared under a not declared license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Henry Jakubowski and Patricia Flatt.

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