Faculty of Science

Objectives

To present an advanced treatment of the structure and function of proteins, clarify their roles in cellular function, and examine methods of purifying and characterising them.

Contents

Amino Acids: Classification, diversity, reactions, separation and quantitative determination; Peptide structure: Levels of protein organisation and stabilising forces; Methods for protein structure determination: sequence determination, principles of X-ray crystallography; Structure motifs, protein folds, domains and tertiary structure; Examples of protein structure: globular, fibrous, membrane bound, Adenine nucleotide binding proteins; Study of original articles on protein structure and function; Protein sequence databases.