Some topics for paper in CHEM 442:
The following topics with page numbers refer to the pages in your textbook. On those pages you will find papers with these specific titles which can be used a starting point for your paper. The person whose name is in green has selected the topic next to his/her name. Since we have so many people in the class, two people can select a topic! Of course, each person has to write her/his own paper!
David - p. 71 – Effect of Water on the Specificity of Protein-ligand Binding Sites
p. 72 – The Hydrogen Bond in Molecular Recognition
Angela - p. 72 – The Role of Water in Protein-DNA Interactions
p. 111 – Unnatural Amino Acids as Probes of Protein Structure and Function
p. 111 – D- Amino Acids in Animal Peptides
Sophie - p. 111 – Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for Protein Characterization
p. 112 – Challenges for Protein Chemical Synthesis in the 21st Century: Bridging Proteomics and Genomics
p. 112 - Genome-Scale Approaches to Resolving Incongruence in Molecular Phylogenies
Rachel, Megan - p. 112 – Molecules as Documents of Evolutionary History
p. 153 - The Past and Future of Structure Databases
Rena - p. 153 – A Structural Scaffolding of Intermediate Filaments in Health and Disease
Betsy - p. 154 – Collagen, Molecular Biology, Diseases, and Potentials for Therapy
Chris, Kelley - p. 154 – Prion Diseases of Humans and Animals: Their Causes and Molecular Basis
p. 154 - Getting Newly synthesized Proteins into Shape
Nicole - p. 154 - The Prion Diseases
Ted , Elizabeth N. - p. 154 – Defective Protein Folding as a Basis of Human Disease
Elizabeth Z. - p. 154 - Mammalian Prion Protein: Enigma, Variation, Vaccination
Brian - p. 187 – Oxygen Transport in Extreme Environments
Emily - p. 187 – Antibody-Antigen Complexes
Neil, Ginger - p. 187 - Viral Strategies of Immune Evasion
Alex - p. 188 – Titins: Giant Proteins in Charge of Muscle Ultrastructure and Elasticity
Jason - p. 188 – The Three-Dimensional Structure of a Molecular Motor
Katie - p. 233 - Antibody Degradation of Cocaine
p. 234 - The Lysozyme Mechanism Sorted - after 50 Years
- Unique Crosslinks Found in Collagen and Related Proteins, Such as Elastin