BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Amine, Keratin, Peptide

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1020
• Professor: Dr.J.W.Zanzot

Document Summary

5 proteins include diversity of structures resulting in a wide range of functions. Hormonal proteins coordination"s of an organisms activities: insulin. Receptor proteins response of cell to chemical stimuli. Enzymes are a type of protein that acts as a catalyst to speed up chemical reactions. Enzymes can perform their functions repeatedly functioning as workhorses that carry out the processes of life. Polypeptides are unbranched polymers built from the same set of 20 amino acids. A protein is a biologically functional molecule that consists of one or more polypeptides amino acids are organic molecules with carboxyl and amino group. Amino acids differ in their properties due to differing side chains, called r groups. A polypeptide is a polymer if amino acids. Polypeptides range in length from a few to more than a thousand monomers. Each polypeptide has unique linear sequence of amino acids with a carboxyl end c-terminus and an amino end n-terminus.