Today let’s discuss protein form from the top down. That is not the conventional direction taken in biochemistry courses where we usually begin with the elementary building blocks and work our way up. (I’m fighting laryngitis this morning, so for this discussion, I’ll need all the ”media crutches” I can find.)
The birth of a protein
From Waltz of the Polypeptides, by Mara Haseltine
Protein structure classification
How many folds?
From 1D to 3D structure: The protein folding problem.
The hierarchy of protein structure
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Hey! I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make a new post, so I’m limited to comments for now. Can you provide some directions? It must be something really obvious that I’m missing…
~Anna