NSD 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Messenger Rna, Peptide Bond, Tripeptide
2 Oct 2017
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Terms to know: proteins, compounds composed to carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and. Nitrogen: arranged in strands of amino acids (some of which contain sulfur, amino acids, the building blocks of protein, composed of an amino group (nitrogen containing portion), an acid group, and a distinctive side chain. A carbon center with an amino group, an acid group, a hydrogen and a side chain variation. The mighty twenty: essential amino acids, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine, non-essential amino acids, alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamin acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, tyrosine* (*considered conditionally essential) The shape of the protein determines its function. Protein organization: order of amino acids in a protein determines its ultimate shape, protein"s final shape determines its function in the body. Denaturation of proteins changes their shape: denaturation: the alteration (unfolding) of a protein"s shape which changes the structure and function of the protein, ex.
