Homework for section 2

Web site with a good overview of forces

8-Mon Feb 28 > hand in March 7 Thermodynamics
I will have a review of homework after class March 4 if needed.
web ref Look especially at Explaining Chemical Equilibria and Le Chatelier's Principle
reading & homework (hand in homework 5,6,7 today)


9-Wed Mar 2 Thermodynamics
see reading & homework for lecture 8.


10-Mon Mar 7: Hydrogen bonds; Lennard Jones Interactions & Molecular Volume & Packing
Please read this for background.
Thermodynamic homework (lecture 8,9) due today.
There will be a review after class today if needed.
Ion association and packing homework. (PDF here) Due Monday March 14

Good web definition here ; a movie of He coming together
A powerpoint view of torsion here
Amino acid hydrophobicity, volume, surface area
TIBS (2003) 28 593-597" Atom depth in protein structure and function Pintar et al.
Biochemistry (2001) 40 15280-15289 Packing is a key selection factor in the evolution of protein hydrophobic cores. Chen and Sites
Packing m&ms here
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 48-76. The hydrogen bond in the solid state.
TIBS (2001) 26 521. More hydrogen bonds for the (structural) biologist.


11-Wed Mar 9: Solvation energy
Solvation homework Due Monday March 14 (PDF here) You will need the class handout to do this homework.
Bockris & Reddy: Modern Electrochemistsry Vol 1 pg 45-58
Science 1999 July 2; 285: 100-102 The Cavity and Pore Helices in the KcsA K+ Channel: Electrostatic Stabilization of Monovalent Cations Benoît Roux and Roderick MacKinnon


12-Mon Mar 14: . Hydrophobicity Homework 10, 11 (Solvation energy and Hbd) due..
Hydrophobicity homework Due Monday March 14 (PDF here)
Creighton. Page 153-162
Science (1983) 222 p 1087-1093 Wolfenden Waterlogged Molecules
Science (1994) 265 p 936-937 On the probability of finding a water moldcule in a nonpolar cavity.
PDF
Radzicka, A., and Wolfenden, R. (1988) Comparing the polarities of the amino acids: Side chain distribution coeffients between the vapor phase, cyclohexane, 1-octonal, and neutral aqueous solution, Biochemistry 27, 1664-1670.
PDF
Biophysical Chemistry (2003) 105 179-182 Hydrophobicity-getting into hot water Lesk


13-Wed Mar 16: Sums of small forces Creighton Page 163-167
Sum of small forces homework Due Monday March 21 (PDF here) You will need the class handout to do this homework.


14-Mon Mar 21: Protein structure determination.Homework 12, 13 (Hydrophobicity and sum of small forces due)


15-Wed Mar 23: pKs and stat. mech
Homework Due Monday March 30 (PDF here)
web ref here
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Mon Mar. 28 - No class


16-Wed Mar 30: Reactions and catalysis (hand in Homework lecture 14,15)
Acc.Chem.Res 2001, 34, 939-946
The depth of chemical time and the power of enzymes as catalysts Wolfenden and Snider


17-Mon Apr 4 Summary forces; Connection to motor proteins (hand in Homework lecture 15,16)


Protein folding reading
Daggett and Fersht: The present view of the mechanism of protein folding
Dobson Protein folding and misfolding
Nauli, Kuhlman, Baker Computer-based redesign of a protein folding pathway
Ferguson and Fersht Early events in protein folding

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