Lipids
Water
Protein Folding
Lab Stuff
Membranes
100
Major fat storage molecule
What is a triacylglyeride?
100
A metaphor for how water molecules arrange themselves around as solute
What is a cage?
100
The simplest repeating unit of a protein
What is an amino acid?
100
The physical property used to separate proteins in SDS-PAGE gels
What is mass?
100
The term for the structure spontaneously formed in water by cone-shaped lipids
What is a micelle?
200
An enzyme that moves a lipid from one bilayer to another
What is a flippase?
200
The property of oxygen that allows it to act as a hydrogen bond acceptor
What is electronegativity?
200
The property of the peptide bond that affects the ability of atoms that make up the peptide backbone to rotate
What is double bond character?
200
The "PA" in SDS-PAGE
What is polyacrylamide?
200
The overall charge on the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane
What is negative?
300
The only non-glyerol phospholipid in cell membranes
What is sphingomyelin?
300
The geometrical term for the arrangement of 4 water molecules hydrogen bonded to another
What is a tetrahedron (or tetrahedral)?
300
The most likely secondary structure adopted by polypeptides with bulky amino acid side chains
What is a beta sheet?
300
Seeing all of the proteins on a gel vs. seeing only one protein of interest
What is the difference between Coomassie staining and western blotting?
300
The lipid that only rarely appears on the outer leaflet of the membrane
What is phosphatidylserine?
400
An amino acid that is attached to two fatty acid chains in some types of lipids
What is serine?
400
The type of hydrogen bond that allows water molecules to move freely in the liquid phase
What is forked (or bifurcated)?
400
Electrostatic interactions between charged amino acid side chains that stabilize protein folding
What are salt bridges?
400
The two classes of molecules needed in the buffer to prepare a complex mixture of proteins for separation by SDS-PAGE
What are a reducing agent and a detergent?
400
The name of the model used to describe the mixture of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates on the plasma membrane
What is fluid mosaic?
500
An amphipathic molecule that stiffens a portion of the cell membrane
What is cholesterol?
500
The explanation for why aggregation of nonpolar solutes is favored in aqueous solution
What is entropically favorable?
500
The model that best describes the series of intermediate structures adopted by a polypeptide during the folding process
What is energy sampling?
500
Determines the range of molecular weights of proteins that can be resolved by SDS-PAGE
What is the concentration (5) of acrylamide in the gel?
500
Best describes the movement of proteins in the lipid bilayer
What is lateral diffusion?
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