Biophysics 2019 - Lecture 5
Channel: Erik Lindahl
Date: 2019-01-27

Structure of real proteins: Fibrous & Globular proteins (Lucie will cover membrane proteins on Monday), and interpreting structure with the F=E-TS equation. Fibrous proteins are large hierarchical structures with small repetitive building blocks. Silk as an example of beta sheets, hair as an example of beta sheets. Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body. Diversity of globular proteins - four-helix bundle as example. Introns/exons do not correspond to structural elements. Hemoglobin vs. Myoglobin - the four subunits enable allosteric binding effects.