CHEM564 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Base Pair, N-Terminus, Protein Engineering

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Biomolecular chemistry: what proteins do: catalysts and binders. Chapters 2, 5 & 10 of mikkelsen, s. r. and corton, e. , bioanalytical chemistry (2004). Chapter 6 of goldsby immunology 5th edition (wh freeman) Appendix 1 of immunobiology 5th edition. (ncbi bookshelf). http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov:80/entrez/query. fcgi? cmd=search&db=books&doptcmdl=genbookhl&term=diagnostic+and+imm% Many gures and the descriptions for the gures are from the educational resources provided at the protein data bank (http://www. pdb. org/) Most of these gures and accompanying legends have been written by david s. Goodsell of the scripps research institute and are being used with permission. I highly recommend browsing the molecule of the month series at the pdb (http://www. pdb. org/pdb/101/motm_archive. do) Suggested reading: sections 2. 1 to 2. 4 and 5. 1 to 5. 5 of mikkelsen and cort n, An enzyme is a protein that is also a catalyst. They also mediate the transformation of one form of energy into another. The most striking characteristics of enzymes are their catalytic power and speci city.