Noncovalent Interactions
Amino Acids
Protein Structure
Oxygen-binding proteins
Enzyme Kinetics and Regulation
100

Having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups

What is amphipathic

100

A polymer of amino acids

What is a protein

100

Interaction that connects β strands in β sheets

What is hydrogen bonding

100

Protein that stores oxygen

What is myoglobin

100

The assumptions of Michaelis-Menten kinetics

What are the initial rate and steady-state assumptions

200

The reason why nonpolar molecules cluster together

What is to increase entropy

200

pH where the net charge of amino acid is 0

What is the isoelectric point

200

Type of structure that is determined by polypeptide backbone interactions

Secondary structure

200

The allosteric modulators of hemoglobin

What are hydrogen ions, carbon dioxide and oxygen

200

The shape of a saturation curve of an allosteric enzyme

What is sigmoidal

300

Ionic interactions in proteins

What is a salt bridge

300

The three amino acids with aromatic R groups

What are Phenylalanine, Tyrosine and Tryptophan

300

Effect of β-mercaptoethanol on hair

What is the disruption of sulfide bonds
300

The location where carbon dioxide binds during carbon dioxide export

What is the N-terminus of each amino acid subunit of hemoglobin

300

Most common type of reversible covalent modification

What is phosphorylation

400

Type of reaction that is exothermic with entropy increased

What is an exergonic reaction

400

The first step when sequencing amino acids in a large protein

What is removing disulfide bonds

400

Example of a fibrous protein in the human body

What is keratin (or collagen, elastin, actin, myosin, fibrin)

400

The effect on the p50 of hemoglobin as pH increases

What is the lowering of p50

400

The effect of uncompetitive inhibition on Vmax and Km

What is the decrease of Vmax and Km

500

The law that pertains to the hydrophobic effect

What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

500

The process that uses FDNB to tag N-terminus amino acid

What is the Sanger Method

500

Effect of a long Lys R group on an alpha helix

What is the destabilization of the alpha helix

500

The enzyme that converts carbon dioxide into a form that can be dissolved in the blood

What is carbonic anhydrase

500

The effect on K0.5 when binding negative modulators 

What is the increase of K0.5

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