User:Stephen Mills/Peptide tutorial 2: Difference between revisions

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Now you are ready to work with oligopeptides, or polymers composed of 3-20 amino acid residues. These polymers are linear; that is, each amino acid is linked to it's neighbor in a head-to-tail fashion rather than forming branched chains. You will be observing a 5mer in this tutorial.
Now you are ready to work with oligopeptides, or polymers composed of 3-20 amino acid residues. These polymers are linear; that is, each amino acid is linked to it's neighbor in a head-to-tail fashion rather than forming branched chains. You will be observing a 5mer in this tutorial.


<Structure load='GDCRY.pdb' size='500' frame='true' align='left' caption='' scene='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_start/1' />
<Structure load='GDCRY.pdb' size='500' frame='true' align='left' caption='' scene='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_start/1' name='penta'/>


For this part, you may need to resize and move the molecule around. To remind you:<br/>
For this part, you may need to resize and move the molecule around. To remind you:<br/>
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'''Identify where Y and R are located in this oligopeptide.'''
'''Identify where Y and R are located in this oligopeptide.'''


<scene name='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_yr/2'>Click here to have Y and R colored purple.</scene>
<scene name='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_yr/2' target='penta'>Click here to have Y and R colored purple.</scene>


Notice that the NH of Y is bonded to the carbonyl of R.
Notice that the NH of Y is bonded to the carbonyl of R.
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'''Identify where C and D are located in this peptide.'''
'''Identify where C and D are located in this peptide.'''
<scene name='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_cd/2'>
<scene name='User:Stephen_Mills/Sandbox_2_Peptide_tutorial_2/Pentapeptide_cd/2' target='penta'>
Click here to have C and D colored purple.</scene>
Click here to have C and D colored purple.</scene>