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.

 

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