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Amino acids, proteins, and enzymes
Question:
Wha direction is an amino acid chain read?
Answer:
from the N terminal to the C terminal
Question:
What makes up the peptide chain backbone?
Answer:
the carbolic acids, the amine group, and the alpha carbon with no charge
,Question:
What is a peptide bond?
Answer:
a change of amin acids above 20-100 amino acids
Question:
What is relaxin?
Answer:
a protein/hormone in women and men. But in women helps relax pelvic
muscles during birth
Question:
What are proteins?
Answer:
over 100 amino acid chain. and can be up to 29,000
Question:
what is albumin?
Answer:
a protein found in the blood that helps with osmotic pressure
,Question:
What units are proteins measured in?
Answer:
AMU or Da/kDa
Question:
What are key principles of supramolecular chemistry?
Answer:
1. made up of two or more macromolecules (2+proteins) fold into a shape
2. self assemble via noncovalent interactions
3. The formation of a double helix
Question:
What is another name for a protein structure? what are the two main types?
Answer:
conformation- 1. fibrous 2. globulin
, Question:
What is an example of a globular and a fibrous conformation?
Answer:
fibrous- hair, collogen, ligaments
globular- hemoglobin
Question:
What are intrinsically disordered proteins?
Answer:
proteins that lack a rigid 3d shape
Question:
What are the two shapes of hemoglobin?
Answer:
1. deoxy
2. oxy- has O2 and middle gets narrow
shows the 3d conformational change of the protein