Elements of Protein Structure

Reading Module 2

Module 2

Garrett and Grisham

• Chapter 1
  • section 4 - Molecular interactions
• Chapter 4
  • section 3 - reactions of amino acids (cysteine is most important here)
  • section 6 - proteins are linear polymers...
  • section 10 - Nature of amino acid sequences
• Chapter 5
  • all sections
• Chapter 6
  • section 8 - membrane assembly
  • section 9 - fluid mosaic model of membranes
  • section 10 - structure of membrane proteins
  • section 11 - lipid anchored membrane proteins

problems

• required and graded
  • short answer questions (see page 3 of this module)
  • multiple choice quiz (see page 4 of this module)
• The following problems from the text book do not need to be handed in, however, you may find them helpful.
  • chapter 5
    • problems 2,3,4,7