Protein Structure
Physical Biochemistry
Principles of Biochemistry
Concepts
Amino Acids
100

The level of protein structure that describes the spatial location of every atom in a protein.

What is 3°?

100

NADH, NADPH, and Ubiquinol have common biological molecule reaction.

What is Reduced?

100

The most complex hierarchal levels of organization in living systems.

What is Organisms?

100

Regions clustered together away from water.

What is Hydrophobic?

100

The single-letter abbreviation of Ile.


What is I?

200

The side chains of amino acids are aromatic.

What is Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, and Tryptophan?

200

The reaction is overall spontaneous and favorable.

What is Exergonic?

200

Nucleotides, Amino Acids, and Glucose have macromolecules in common.

What is Monomer?

200

The process of disassembling macromolecular polymers into monomers is called.

What are catabolic pathways?

200

The amino acid of K (single-letter abbreviation).

What is Lysine?

300

The pKa range of Cysteine.

What is 5.5 to 8.5?

300

The phospholipid bilayer structure has a hydrophobic barrier and polar head groups.  

What is Liposomes?

300

Enzymes are directly involved when yeast converts pyruvate into ethanol?


What is Pyruvate Decarboxylase and Alcohol Dehydrogenase?

300

The bond type that has partial double bond character.

What is Peptide bond?

300

The single-letter abbreviation of Aspartic acid.

What is D?

400

The strength of cross-linking as a result of disulfide bonds.

What is Keratin?

400

The change of energy charge of cells without hyperactive adenylate kinase mutation.

What is Electron Charge Increase?

400

Term that two genes have evolved from one another following a gene duplication.

What are Paralogs?

400

Protein Structure and function are determined by primary amino acid sequence.

What is Anfinsen's theory?

400

The single-letter abbreviation of Asparagine.

What is N?

500

It shows the allowable combination of φ and ψ angles for amino acid residues on the basis of steric hindrance.

What is Ramachandran plot?


500

At low temperatures, the lipid bilayer becomes semicrystalline and forms a gel-like solid.

What is Phospholipid Flipping?

500

The factor that significantly influences the structure and reactivity of biomolecules for the delocalization of electrons across multiple bonds.

What is Resonance?

500

It rotates which allows to minimize "steric hindrance" and changes the path of polypeptide chain.

What is  ϕ and ψ torsional angles?

500

An amino acid classification that is aromatic and single-letter abbreviation is Y.

What is Tyrosine?

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