Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function

• Main Author: Buxbaum, Engelbert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Chemistry.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Biomedicine general.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

This book serves as an introduction to protein structure and function. Starting with their makeup from simple building blocks, called amino acids, the 3-dimensional structure of proteins is explained. This leads to a discussion of how misfolding of proteins causes diseases like cancer, various encep...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Proteins
• Amino Acids
• Protein Structure
• Proteins in the Lab
• Part II: Enzymes
• Enzymes are Biocatalysts
• Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanism
• Inhibition and Inactivation of Enzymes
• Hæmyoglobin and Myoglobin: Cooperativity
• Enzyme Kinetics: Special Cases
• The Flow of Metabolites through Metabolic Pathways
• Part III: Special Proteins
• Protein Folding Diseases
• Immunoproteins
• Cell Skeleton
• Motor Proteins and Movement
• Cell-cell interactions
• Aiding in Folding: Molecular Chaperones and Chaperonins
• Part IV: Membrane Transport
• Protein Transport across Membranes
• Vesicular Transport in Eukaryotic Cells
• Transport of Solutes across Membranes
• Appendices.