Life Sciences 1a Lecture 7: Lecture 7 – Introduction to Protein Structure.docx

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Life Sciences
• Course: Life Sciences 1a
• Professor: Robert Lue

Document Summary

Sept 24 introduction to protein structure transition state, show breaking and forming bonds with dashed line developing negative and positive charges position side chains of amino acids to accelerate reactions by having everything lined up solution with enzyme could generate more free energy sooner enzymes only affect how quickly equilibrium position is established proteins have more building blocks, wider range of monomers nucleic acids are negative charged polymers proteins have more varied charge distribution structural proteins evolve to withstand mechanical stress, can assemble and dissemble regulating proteins can turn on or off other protein apoptosis: cell death.