Useful Links :
You may find the following links helpful in your studies this semester. The standard Internet disclaimer applies though: Just because you see it on your computer screen doesn't means it is correct! When in doubt, do more research.
Amino Acid Structures: A nice page with multiple views of the naturally occuring amino acids.
Protein Purification Overview: A review article describing current approaches to protein purification.
SDS-PAGE overview: A summary page from the molecular biology course at Davidson.
MALDI-TOF MS Identification of an unknown protein: An experimental protocol from Indiana University illustrating how to use a MALDI-TOF mass spectrum of a tryptic digest and a publicly available database to identify an unknown protein.
ExPASY Calculation of MW and pI: This website will allow you to paste an amino acid sequence into it and obtain the molecular mass and isoelectric point. Quite useful for obtaining MW from PDB files where you have extracted the sequence.
Suggested Journals for CHEM525
If you are interested in some of the techniques we are learning this semester, try scanning some of these journals and see how they can be used to solve fundamental problems in the biological and chemical sciences.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Biochemical Journal (registration required)
Biochemistry
Biophysical Journal
Cell
EMBO Journal
Infection and Immunity (articles available 3 months after publication)
Journal of Bacteriology(articles available 3 months after publication)
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology of the Cell (articles available 2 months after publication)
Molecular Cell
Molecular and Cellular Biology (articles available 3 months after publication)
Nature
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Nucleic Acids Research
Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences
Protein Science
Proteome Science
Science
Structure