Monomer/ Oligomere Polymer/Aggregat Zucker … · The strength of a bond can be measured by the energy required to break it, here given in kilocalories per mole (kcal/mole). ( One
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*. The strength of a bond can be measured by the energy required to break it, here given in kilocalories per mole (kcal/mole). ( One kilocalorie is the quantity of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1000 g of water by 1C. An alternative unit in wide use is the kilojoule, kJ, equal to 0.24 kcal.) Individual bonds vary a great deal in strength, depending on the atoms involved and their precise environment, so that the above values are only a rough guide. Note that the aqueous environment in a cell will greatly weaken both the ionic and the hydrogen bonds between nonwater molecules (Panel 3-1, pp. 92-93). The bond length is the center-to-center distance between the two interacting atoms; the length given here for a hydrogen bond is that between its two nonhydrogen atoms.
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Steric limitations on the bondangles in a polypeptide chain. (A) Each amino acid contributesthree bonds (colored red) to itspolypeptide chain. The peptide bondis planar ( gray shading) and doesnot permit rotation. By contrast, rotation can occur about the C α-C bond, whose angle of rotation iscalled psi (ψ), and about the N-C α bond, whose angle of rotation iscalled phi (). The R group denotesan amino acid side chain. (B) The conformation of the main-chainatoms in a protein is determined byone pair of phi and psi angles foreach amino acid; because of stericcollisions within each amino acid, most pairs of phi and psi angles do not occur. In this so-calledRamachandran plot, each dotrepresents an observed pair of anglesin a protein. (B, from J. Richardson, Adv. Prot. Chem. 34:174-175, 1981.)
A β−sheet is a commonstructure formed byparts of the polypeptidechain in globularproteins. At the top, a domain of 115 aminoacids from an immunoglobulin moleculeis shown; it consists of a sandwich-like structure oftwo β− sheets, one ofwhich is drawn in color. At the bottom, a perfectantiparallel β− sheet isshown in detail, with theamino acid side chainsdenoted R. Note thatevery peptide bond ishydrogen-bonded to a neighboring peptide bond. The actual sheet structuresin globular proteins areusually less regular thanthe β− sheet shown here, and most sheets areslightly twistedRädler / Mathias
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An α-helix is another common structure formed by parts of the polypeptide chain in proteins. (A) The oxygen-carrying molecule myoglobin (153 amino acids long) is shown, with one region of α- helix outlined in color. (B) A perfect α- helix is shown in outline. (C) As in the β-sheet, every peptide bond in an α- helix is hydrogen-bonded to a neighboring peptide bond. Note that for clarity in (B) both the side chains [which protrude radially along the outside of the helix and are denoted by R in (C)] and the hydrogen atom are omitted on the α- carbon atom of each amino acid
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Motifs are regular combinations of secondary structures
A coiled coil motif is formed by two or more heliceswound around one anothere.g. Collagen
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Three levels of organization of a protein. The three-dimensional structure of a protein can be described in terms of different levels of folding, each of which is constructed from the preceding one in hierarchical fashion. These levels are illustrated here using the catabolite activator protein (CAP), a bacterial gene regulatory protein with two domains. When the large domain binds cyclic AMP, it causes a conformational change in the protein that enables the small domain to bind to a specific DNA sequence. The amino acid sequence is termed the primary structure and the first folding level the secondary structure. As indicated under the brackets at the bottom of this figure, the combination of the second and third folding levels shown here is commonly termed the tertiary structure, and the fourth level (the assembly of subunits) the quaternary structure of a protein
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The information for protein folding is encoded in the sequence
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Primary and secondary structure in hemagglutinin
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Tertiary and quaternary structure in hemagglutinin
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Up To Date No Unified Folding Theory
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Folding Funnel
Folding of proteins in vivo is promoted by chaperones