This course is divided into three sections:
1: Introduction:
- What is protein?
- Atoms to an amino acid to peptide bond
- Project introduction
- Protein universe (structure)
- Sequence conservation
2: Forces:
- Thermodynamics
- Vdw/packing
- hydrogen bonds
- Born
- hydrophobicity
- Nernst/pK
3: Overview topics:
- Membrane vs soluble proteins
- Protein assembly
- Electron tunneling
The tentative course schedule is