Protein Structures: Lecture Outline

- Protein structures : Overall view

primary
secondary
tertiary
quaternary
- Importance of the protein structures
- Detail notes on secondary structures
Primary structure describes
the order of covalently linked
Amino acid residues.
Secondary structure describes the way in which certain lengths of
polypeptides interact through CO:NH hydrogen bonds either
intramolecularly or Iintermolecularly.
Intramolecular H bonding
in globular protein
Intermolecular H bonding between different
chains in fibrous protein
Tertiary Structure
Tertiary structure describes how the chains with secondary structure
Further interact through the side chains (R groups) of the amino acid residues
To give 3-D shape.