Reading Assignments

Note that some reading can be found on reserve in the library

Week 1: Thermodynamics and Amino Acids

Week 2: Proteins: Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary Structure

Week 3: Protein Stability/Physical Methods

Week 4: Structure Determination/Nucleic Acids

Week 5: Nucleic Acids all week long! They might even be functional.

Week 6: Ligand Binding and and Exam.

Week 7: Repressors, Antibodies, and Maybe Catalysis.

Week 8: Enzyme Kinetics & Catalysis

Week 9: TIM & Nucleases

Week 10: Proteases and Metal Ion Catalysis

Week 11: Metals - Lewis Acidity and Redox Roles

Week 12: Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases

Week 13: aaRS's and on to Translation