Concepts in Bioscience Engineering

• Main Author: Dods, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Biomaterials.; Biomedical engineering.; Regenerative medicine.; Tissue engineering.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering.; Bioorganic Chemistry.

This textbook teaches bioengineers critical concepts about protein three dimensional structures, how proteins fold, and how the folding affects the functioning of the protein. Protein folding has profound effects on the discovery of biopharmaceutical drugs (especially the transport of immunological...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Primary Structure
• Secondary Structure
• Tertiary Structure
• Quaternary Structure
• Post-Translational Changes
• Proteopathies
• Unusual Proteins
• Techniques Used to Study Protein Folding
• Software for Protein Folding
• Bioengineering
• Postscript. .