This note covers the
following topics: Structural Biology and Amino acids, History of Macromolecular Crystallography, Amino acid Chirality,
Non-covalent interactions and Ramachandran Map, Secondary structures;
Introduction to Protein , Alpha-domain proteins I: Coiled coils and four-helix
bundle, ROP protein design, Alpha-domain proteins II: Large alpha-helical domain
and globin fold, Alpha or Beta-domain proteins, Beta-domain proteins.
These are notes about
using mathematics to study the molecular structure of molecules, especially long
organic molecules like DNA and proteins. Topics covered includes: Molecular
Genetics: DNA, Proteins, Frames and moving frames, Orthogonal transformations
and Rotations, Torsion angles and pdb files, X-ray Crystallography, Lattices,
and Fourier Series, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and distance geometry, Protein
Folding.
The aim of this book is that a non expert
can gain some appreciation for the intricacies involved, and in the current
state of affairs. The expert meanwhile, can gain a deeper understanding of the
topic.