From amino acids to peptides to proteins: an overview How proteins take shape – amino acids, peptide bonds, & layers of protein structure Biochemistry from A to Z! Remember, amino acidsare amphiprotic, amphoteric, and zwitterionic*! (*at neutral & bodily pH). amino_acids_cheat_sheetDownload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duIF1N57Q6MVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Key information to know about amino acids & tips for remembering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duIF1N57Q6M) https://youtu.be/duIF1N57Q6M German! Italian! Learn (and learn to love) your amino acid alphabet Alanine, chirality, glucose-alanine cycle Amino acids to peptides to proteins Arginine, basic vs. acidic amino acids Asparagine and asparaginase treatment Aspartate, the malate-aspartate shuttle Cysteine – disulfide bonds, reducing agents, perms Glutamate, ionic “bonds,” salts Glutamine, Huntington’s disease, genetic diseases & mutation types Glycine and early protein chemistry research Histidine, immobilized metal affinity chromatography Isoleucine, Maple Syrup Urine Disease Leucine, ketogenic amino acids Lysine, Schiff bases Methionine, methyl transfers Phenylalanine, aromaticity, hydrocarbons, functional groups, and more! Selenocysteine, selenoproteins, translation trickery Serine, serine proteases Threonine, protein phosphorylation Tryptophan, serotonin, melatonin, spectroscopy, etc. Tyrosine, hormones, neurotransmitters, catecholamines – and what the heck that means Valine, branched-chain amino acid breakdown
