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8/18 Secondary and Tertiary Structure
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Biology
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08/28/2011

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Term
Peptide Bond rotation
Definition
- Has resonance structure conferring partial double bond so there is no rotation around that bond.
- Uncharged bond
- Forces Carboxy carbon and N and all attached atoms into same plane
Term
Phi
Definition
N and Ca rot angle, limited by size of atoms in back bone and R's
Term
Psi
Definition
C and Ca rot angle, limited by size of atoms in bb and R's
Term
Ramachandran plot
Definition
- Made using 500 diff proteins
- Plots Psi and phi
- Certain angles or pairs not found in nature
- Some clumped areas on plot, represent diff secondary structures (beta sheet with have larger phi and more positive phi angles whereas psi have less large)
Term
Rigidity of peptide unit and allowed phi/psi angles are ...
Definition
key for folding
Term
Alpha Helix
Definition
- Periodic structure (57 phi and 47 psi)
- 3.6 residues per turn
- CO of each residue makes H-bond to NH of residue four ahead (i and i+4)
- All CO and NH groups within helix are H-bonded
- Amino acids protrude outof helix at 100* intervals
- Most are right handed/clockwise
Term
Hydrogen bonds
Definition
- Electrostatic
- Short range, below 3.3 A/.33 nm
- Distance and angle critical to force
- 1-3 kcal/mol
Term
Beta Sheet
Definition
- Extended peices (B-strands) hydrogen bond between CO and NH groups
- Parallel and anti-parrallel variety; AP is more common more stable because H-bonds parallel to each other
- 130 phi and 125 psi; almost fully extended
- OFten right hand twisted and sheets can form barrells
Term
b- turns
Definition
- Aburpt change in dir of backbone at surface of protein
- Reverse turns
- Backbone Hbonds across hairpin stabilize
- Often connect two AP b strands
GLY, Ser, ASn or Pro (small r goups)
Term
Coils and Loops
Definition
- No strict preiodic or regular structure
- Longer "excursion of backbone"
- Floppy/unstructured
- Often at surface of protein
- Mediate interaction with other molecules
Term
Tertiary structure
Definition
- Overall 3D arrangement of secondary structure elements
- Structure beyond a single helix or B-sheet
- Arrangement of domains or folding units within a single chain
Term
Tertiary Structures stabilized by:
Definition
In hi to low:
- Covalent bonds and metal ligands (co-ordination)
- Electrostatics (residues with diff charges formign salt bridges)
- H-bonds
- Vander Waals (nonpolar AA's, mostly for tightly packed proteins)
Term
Hydrophic Effect
Definition
-Contributes to protein folding and 3d shape
- Apolar molecules clump together
- Usually for globular soluble proteins; hydrophonic AA's form the core and charged AA's or on surface
Term
Protein Folding
Definition
- Occurs as the protein emerges from ribosome
- Final step in transformation of genetic info to bio function
- Determined by primary structure
- Driven by hydrophobic effect and formation of intermediate structures
Term
Molecular Chaperones
Definition
- In vivo doesnt allow proper folding; not enough water
- HSP 60 and 70 (diff kinds in cytosol, mito and ER)
- 3 domains; apical, intermediate and equatorial
- Chaperones recognize and capture the hydrophobic parts of unfolded protein via interactions with the rim of the barrell
- Protein is capped using ATP and then released using ATP (hopefully folded)
- Equatorial domain mediates contacts in ring structure
Term
Protein Misfolding
Definition
- Certain physio conditions such as pH, temp, stress, oxidation etc cause protein to mild fold and then aggregate
- Generally B strands
- Form oligomers that can eitehr create amorphous aggregates or protofibrils that form fibrils
- Misfolded proteins are usually degraded
Term
Prion disease
Definition
- Prion protein acts as template to turn other proteins into nondegradable misfolded protein
- Normal conformation is PrP^c vs Diseased PrP^SC which forms large complexes
- Same primary structure but forms beta strands that encourage misfolding
Term
Myoglobin secondary structure vs hvDAC1
Definition
Myoglobin is mostly helican while hVDAC1 is mostly b-stranded
Term
Domains
Definition
- Modular units that can form independantly and usually are associated with specific structural or functional features of that protein
- 800 found and studied, maybe 2k total
- only 7% are vertebrate specific
- Evolved by fusion delm insertion of segmants that code for diff parts creating novel combinations
Term
Protein Repertoire
Definition
- Described by type and number of fomains
- aprox 25k protein coding genes
- function of aprox 10k of proteins are not known!
Term
Time Scale
1) Femto-pico
2) Pico - nano
3) Nano- micro
4) Micro - second
Definition
Amplitude and examples
1) .001-.1 A; bond stretchin/angle bending
2) .01- 10 A; unhindred surfice side chain
3) 1-100 A; Folding in small peptides
4) 10-1000 A; Protein folding
Term
Fluctuations
Definition
- Protein fluctuation key for function
- Occur across diff time and size scales
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