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H2O
How much of you is protein?
Amino Acids: “Dry” form
Carboxylic acid
Amino group
Radical group
Ionization? What’s it do in water?
H+
H+
“wet” form
Amino Acids: (cont)
•20 various radical groups•some nonpolarnonpolar•some polar or chargedpolar or charged
Condensation or Dehydration Synthesis
Peptide bond
Dipeptide
Synthesis of a dipeptidedipeptide:
Protein Structure:•The final shape of a protein determines its
function
•Proteins are either globular or fibrous
Levels of Protein Structure:
•There are four possible levels of folding
1) Primary (10)
2) Secondary (20)
3) Tertiary (30)
4) Quaternary (40)
Folding
• Nothing more than the amino acid sequence
• What forces hold it in this structure?
ex? Lysozyme
Pro-Insulin- a globular protein
Primary structure
Insulin- the finished hormone
Folding
• Actual folding • Radicals not involved (yet)
• Forces responsible? Hydrogen Bonds
• Two possibilities
Helix & Pleats
Helix (first type found)
Pleats (the second found)
Folding
• Results in final shape
• Actual folding
• Result of radical group interactions
• Four types of forces
Folding
• Bonding of two different polypeptides
• Covalently bonded
Denaturation of Proteins
• Destruction of its“native” configuration
• Environmental cause?
• 3-D shape is fragile
• temperature & pH changes
SupportKeratin
Support
Collagen
Enzymes
Catalase
Active site
2H2O2
O2
2H2O
Transport
Hemoglobin
Transport
Channel Proteins
Transport
Microtubules
CommunicationHormones
Communication
Receptor Proteins
Defense
Antibodies
Motion
Muscle fibers
Actin
Myosin
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