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Introduction
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Fundamentals
- Water: The Realm of Biochemistry
- Water and Ice
- The Hydrophobic Effect
- Amphiphilic Molecules
- Noncovalent Interactions
- Van der Waals Interactions
- Ionic Interactions
- Molecular Recognition
- Water: The Realm of Biochemistry
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Nucleic Acids
- Molecular Complementarity
- DNA Architecure
- DNA and RNA Aptamers
- Homo-DNA and Nature's Choice of Pentose
- Transfer RNA
- Pseudoknots in RNA
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Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
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Amino Acids and Peptides
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Protein Architecture
- Secondary Structure
- The Alpha Helix
- Beta Sheets and Turns
- The Beta Helix
- Tertiary Structure
- Secondary Structure
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Quaternary Structure of Proteins
- Introduction
- Hydrophobic Interfaces
- Protein Symmetry
- Domains and Modular Proteins
- Supercoiled Protein Motifs
- The Collagen Triple Helix
- Coiled-Coil Proteins
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Functional Diversity of Proteins
- Oxygen Transport
- Myoglobin
- Hemoglobin – An Allosteric Protein
- The GroE Chaperonin
- Oxygen Transport
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Enzymes
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Review Class Lectures