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3.9: Key Words and Terms

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    Ab

    functional groups

    primary structure

    a-carbon

    gene family

    prion

    alpha helix

    gene superfamily

    protein folding

    allosteric regulation

    glycosylation

    PrP

    Alzheimer's disease

    helix-turn-helix motif

    quaternary structure

    amino acid residues

    hemoglobin

    random coil

    amino end

    hydrophobic interactions

    recombinatorial exchange

    amyloid beta protein

    levels of protein structure

    salt bridges

    amyloid plaques

    Mad Cow disease

    salt bridges

    beta barrel

    multimer

    secondary structure

    beta sheet

    NCBI Cn3D database

    sequence motifs

    carboxyl end

    neurofibrillary tangles

    sickle cell anemia

    catalysts

    nucleoskeleton

    side chains

    chaperones

    orders of protein structure

    structural domain

    configuration

    Parkinson's disease

    structural motif

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    peptide bonds

    sulfhydryl groups

    cytoskeleton

    peptide linkages

    tau protein

    disulfide bonds

    phosphorylation

    tertiary structure

    Edman degradation

    pleated sheet

    enzymes

    polypeptide backbone


    This page titled 3.9: Key Words and Terms is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Gerald Bergtrom.

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