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Protein Structure Basics

Introduction to protein folding and structure-function relationships

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Overview

Introduction to protein folding and structure-function relationships

Activities & Tasks
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Explore Insulin Structure

Use Mol* Viewer to examine insulin structure

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Week Resources

Required Readings

Molecular Biology of the Cell, Ch. 4: Proteins
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Introduction to Protein Structure (NCBI primer)
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Exercises

Coding Exercise

Python script to compute amino acid frequencies from FASTA

Visualization

Explore insulin (PDB: 4INS) with Mol* Viewer

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