Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• predict whether the acid and amine groups in amino acids will be protonated at different pH values
• predict the pI of amino acids and simple peptides
• describe the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure of proteins

   

• Chapter 24 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Proteins and amino acids (in ChemWiki)
• Proteins (in ChemWiki)

• Dr Baker's lecture notes You need to login to eLearning to access lecture notes.
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