Nucleic Acids and Amino Acids

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Nucleic Acids and Amino Acids
http//www.math.iastate.edu/wu/math597.html

• Math/BCB/ComS597
• Zhijun Wu
• Department of Mathematics

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Adenine
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Cytosine
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Guanine
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Thymine
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Uracil
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? Alanine (Ala)
Arginine (Arg) ?
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? Asparagine (Asn)
Aspartate (Asp) ?
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? Cysteine (Cys)
Glutamate (Glu) ?
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? Glycine (Gly)
Glutamine (Gln) ?
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? Histidine (His)
Isoleucine (Ile) ?
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? Leucine (Leu)
Lysine (Lys) ?
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? Methionine (Met)
Phenylalanine (Phe) ?
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? Proline (Pro)
Serine (Ser) ?
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? Threonine (Thr)
Tryptophan (Trp) ?
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? Tyrosine (Tyr)
Valine (Val) ?
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Extra Points for Homework Assignment 1 Due 6pm,
Friday, September 5th

• For each of the twenty amino acids, find an
  instance of the acid in an known protein. Make a
  small PDB file for each amino acid you find using
  its atomic records in the corresponding PDB file.
• Use RasMol to display the amino acids and put the
  pictures in your web site as a structure profile.
  
• An example PDB file for an amino acid
• COMPNDStr1
• REMARK Alanine Structure
• ATOM 1 C 1 -0.134 -0.047
  -0.101
• ATOM 2 C 1 -1.379 0.806
  0.122
• ATOM 3 N 1 -0.093 -1.143
  0.915
• ATOM 4 C 1 1.098 0.814
  0.038
• ATOM 5 O 1 1.870 0.931
  -0.900
• ATOM 6 O 1 1.332 1.418
  1.131
• ATOM 7 H 1 -0.164 -0.479
  -1.099
• ATOM 8 H 1 -2.267 0.185
  0.022
• ATOM 9 H 1 -1.409 1.604
  -0.617
• ATOM 10 H 1 -1.349 1.238
  1.120
• ATOM 11 H 1 -0.937 -1.734
  0.820
• ATOM 12 H 1 0.752 -1.722
  0.764