BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS
cod. 1000156

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Biochimica (BIO/10)
Field
Discipline biotecnologiche comuni
Type of training activity
Characterising
15 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
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Integrated course unit module: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF BIOMOLECULES

Learning objectives

<p style="line-height: 120%;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Considering the significant development and relevance of the structural proteomics, this course is designed to give students a basic knowledge of the principles and practise of the most important methods to determine the structure, the conformational stability and dynamics of proteins in solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Course unit content

<p style="line-height: 120%;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Forces that determine biomolecular structure. Structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. Membrane proteins: G-protein coupled receptors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">Spectroscopic methods to determine the structural features, the conformational stability and dynamics of biomolecules in solution: an outline of circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

Full programme

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Bibliography

<p style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: 120%;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;">All the study materials and supporting web sites are provided by the teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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