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"Freeze Frame Flicks of Fleeting Intermediates in Heme Enzyme Reactions" Dr. James R. Kincaid, Pfletschinger Habermann Professor, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University. 3pm Friday, December 5, Chem. Sci. 101 Abstract

"Diving into Uncharted Waters... Hyperbaric Hyperoxia and CNS Function and Dysfunction" Dr. Jay B. Dean, Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Head of the  Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory, University of South Florida. 4pm Wednesday, November 19, Dow 642

"Mechanistic analysis and inhibition of Clostridium difficile toxin A: Using chemical strategies to develop new treatments for antibiotic-associated diarrhea." Dr. Andrew Felig, Wayne State University Department of Chemistry. 3pm Friday, October 24, Chem. Sci. 101

 

 

 

Exam I Study Material

Amino acid schematic based on idea from Dr. Thomas Loehr.

Protein structural motifs

Protein sequencing overview

Protein Folding (powerpoint) (html) and Degradation (powerpoint) (html)

Neat molecular depiction of GROEL/GROES movement from real data

Old Problem Set I Answers

Problem Set II

Problem Set II Answers

Thermodynamics Primer

Exam I Skills List

Supplemental Amino Acid Sequencing Problems

Supplemental Answers

Old ExamI, Old ExamI Answers

 

Exam II Study Material

Michaelis-Menten Kinetics

Kinetics Problem Set 1

Kinetics Problem Set 1 Answers

Kinetics Problem Set 2

Kinetics Problem Set 2 Answers

Enzyme Mechanism

Lysozyme Mechanism

Lysozyme Factoids

Skills List

Old ExamII

 

Final Exam Study Material

Signal Transduction

Molecular Motors

Skills List

Old exam A

Old exam B

Extra Credit Assignments

Protein Visualization Exercise

Instructions on Rasmol for protein structure visualization

Protein Modifications Summary Sheet

Molecular Facebook

Construct a pseudofacebook page for your biological molecule of interest

 

 

 

Important weblinks for this course

National Center for Biotechnology Information

The Protein Databank

Fun Stuff and Miscellaneous

Fun link to the neutrophil chasing S. aureus movie

The periodic table (animated of course with music by Tom Lehrer)

Craig Ventner's paper "Essential genes of a minimal bacterium" PNAS (January 2006) 103:425

Krueger and Srivastava's paper on "Post-translational Protein Modifications: Current Implications for Cancer Detection, Prevention and Therapeutics" Mol. Cell. Proteomics (October 2006) 5.10:1799