BMB960 - SS09


Recent Topics in Protein Structure and Dynamics

Tuesday1/133-3:50 pmin BCH 502
Thursdays1/22-4/302:30 - 4 pmin BCH 502

This is a student seminar course guided by Biochemistry faculty.

Each student is expected to give a one hour-long literature-based seminar and ask questions during discussions following each seminar.

The schedule is as follows:

1/13Tuesday3-3:50 pmFeig: Course introduction
1/22Thursday3-4 pmWedemeyer: Introduction to protein and nucleic acid structure
1/29Thursday2:30-4 pmZiru Li: Protein folding/function #1 (Wedemeyer)
Annual Review of Biochemistry 77, 363-382 (2008) (background)
PNAS 104, 14664-14669 (2007)
2/5Thursday2:30-4 pmFadhiru Kamba: Protein folding/function #2 (Wedemeyer)
Nature 453, 190-195 (2008)
2/12Thursday2:30-4 pmMaryam Sayadi: Membrane proteins #1: P-type ATPases (Feig)
Nature 450, 1036-1042 (2007)
Nature 450, 1043-1049 (2007)
2/19Thursday2:30-4 pmAfra Panahi: Membrane proteins #2: Potassium channel (Feig)
Nature 414, 73-77 (2001)
PNAS 104, 9260-9265 (2007)
Biophysical Journal 95, 5062-5072 (2008)
2/26Thursday2:30-4 pmJifeng Wang: Metalloenzymes #1: Amidohydrolases (Hausinger)
Biochemistry 44, 6383-6391 (2005) (background)
Journal of Molecular Biology 379, 1017-1028 (2008)
3/5Thursday2:30-4 pmSean Law: Metalloenzymes #2: 2-oxoglutarate oxygenases (Hausinger)
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 100, 644-669 (2006) (background)
Nature 452, 961-965 (2008)
3/19Thursday2:30-4 pmRahul Banerjee: Enzyme dynamics and catalysis #1: Adenylate kinase (Yan)
Chemical Reviews 106, 3055-3079 (2006) (background)
Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 214-221 (2008) (background)
Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 442-451 (2008) (background)
Nature 450, 838-844 (2007)
Nature 450, 913-916 (2007)
3/26Thursday2:30-4 pmZhenwei Lu: Enzyme dynamics and catalysis #2: Triosephosphate isomerase (Yan)
Chemical Reviews 106, 3055-3079 (2006) (background)
Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 214-221 (2008) (background)
Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 442-451 (2008) (background)
Journal of Molecular Biology 368, 131-149 (2007)
4/2Thursday2:30-4 pmPatrick Ochieng: RNA structure and function #1: RNA folding (Hoogstraten)
Nucleic Acids Research 36, 7088-7099 (2008)
4/9Thursday2:30-4 pmDavid Achila: RNA structure and function #2: RNA structure conservation (Hoogstraten)
PLoS Biology 6, e96 (2008)
4/16Thursday3-4 pmBurton: RNA polymerase introduction
4/23Thursday2:30-4 pmYoung-Moon Cho: RNA polymerase #1: Th. thermophilus X-ray structure (Burton)
Nature 448, 157-163 (2007)
Nature 448, 163-168 (2007)
4/30Thursday2:30-4 pmMichael King: RNA polymerase #2: E. coli single molecule dynamics (Burton)
Nature 438, 460-465 (2005)



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