I studied a lot Chemistry during high school and Biochemistry at med school, but still feel enlightened by Prof Imperiali's lecture. Thank you so much, and thanks MIT for publishing this for us.
Hey there. Do you know other resources online for layman (non med scholl trained) person to understand more about their body. I started with James Hamblin books, If Our Bodies Coudl Talk and Clean and then found The Song of Cell. And I find it infintely interesting.
My God! I've literally never seen anyone explaining better than this professor. I've searched a lot of videos that provide basic protein structure information and none of them could satisfy me until I came across this 51 mins long masterpiece. Thank you so much MIT ❤❤❤
you did not meet my biochemistry, one Dr Julian Coleman, far better than this lecturer. Recently I have listened to Professor Dasgupta of Indian who did a splendid job on this subject.
Great lecture. I am listening to the whole series and relearning things I forgot 20+yrs after receiving a biochemistry degree. I do take exception with her lack of comprehension of the humor embedded in the cartoon. What makes it funny is the cartoonist is clearly (it is illustrated!) referring to folding a physical map, like the kind we had to buy prior to ubiquitous GPS. And, to me, it is also implied that the cartoonist is fully aware that ‘genomes’ don’t fold, and proteins do, thus making it funny on a few levels. Context and expectation is what separates a humor cartoonist from a textbook illustrator, professor.
Thank you for your time and effort in posting these videos... note that if you keep the bath for the amino acids in a light and airy vibe so to speak nonlocal communication can occur...
In a polypeptide many of the bonds show free rotation, however the amide(peptide bond) is unique upon the fact that there is restricted rotation in that bond, like spaghetti with little bits that haven't been cooked
@@MrNiOGAMING Yes -- this was roughly a week after I made this comment. I remember hearing the news of AlphaFold and thinking "oh i just made a yt comment on comp bio" haha
20:49 Why does she say the primary sequence does not determine function except by determining shape? The function of triosephosphate isomerase, for example, depends on the exact locations of the charged amino acids that serve as temporary donors and acceptors of protons. Saying only "shape" matters implies that charges don't. But a different protein with the same shape but a different charged/uncharged amino acid sequence would not have the same function. I am not a biologist or a chemist, but I believe it's possible to have two different proteins with the same shape (e.g. alpha helix or beta sheet) but a different charged/uncharged amino acid sequence.
Is a polymer protein strand, recreated as a viral cancer gene in G_nome RNA carboxylic ameno chain, is it possible to replace the viral strand, your body recreated from your Chromosome stick recount for autonomous Operation production, as a G_nome viral protein stand with a Organic Chemistry Chain Reaction Formula and recreate the original polymer protein syrand with peptide bonded ameno's carrying the original genetic sequence, and set in place during uptake recount.???
33:40 Are these illustrations correct? It looks like some of the carbon atoms have been drawn in the wrong order, in both the alpha helix and in the beta sheet. We should have nitrogen and then the alpha carbon connected to the side chain (not shown) and then the carbon atom double-bonded to oxygen in the hydroxyl group and then the nitrogen of the next amino acid. But the pictures show nitrogen and then the carbon atom double-bonded to oxygen in the hydroxyl group and then the alpha carbon and then the nitrogen of the next amino acid. Also, in the beta sheet, the first carboxyl group has a single bond, instead of a double bond. Finally, the lower strand in the beta sheet shows a nitrogen connected to an oxygen, instead of carbon. Whoever made these pictures must have been on ethanol.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could measure the amount of water molecules produced from a condensation reaction, and from that figure out how many peptide bonds and therefore exactly how many amino acids were in a protein? They've probably already done this but i will pretend i've invented it.
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(On Sunday of January 29, 2023). Introductory Biology and the Structures of Amino Acids (Alpha Amino Acids because of the Human Emphasis), Peptides (Dipeptides and Polypeptides) and Proteins (Quaternary Structured Proteins Along the Lines Of Collagen, Hemoglobin, And A multitude of others), otherwise the Basics and Fundamentals Proteomics (More than Covalent and Non-Covalent Bonding). PhD Barbara Imperiali, Emperatrix Mea Gloriosa Est; Ego malo Fare Qui Vedere. Heil!
The required textbook is: Sadava, D. E., D. M. Hillis, et al. Life: The Science of Biology. 11th ed. W. H. Freeman, 2016. ISBN: 9781319145446. See the course materials on MIT OpenCourseWare for more info at: ocw.mit.edu/7-016F18. Best wishes on your studies!
I have a question to make. I have no chemistry/biology background. I have been watching the first 3 lectures and I am kind of lost with the jargon and the chemistry notation. Is it worth continuing or should I go back and review something before I continue?
Might be a few days too late. But they have a getting up to speed course, it's called "Getting up to Speed in Biology, Summer 2020". It's a great start and free on their YT channel. Good luck!
I went to MIT and have a chemistry degree. I highly recommend that if you do not understand something to take a pause and go backwards. This is a first semester freshman course and is slow compared to others so it is incredibly beneficial to you to get a solid and strong understanding of the foundations before continuing. You will not regret it! Like CIA said, there is a course for incoming freshman who are on the same page as you by a different professor that would be great for you! It is a short, prep course basically
I am not hydrophobic, but now that I have learned this terminology, I am definitely going to insist that whenever people address me they use my preferred proteins.
Very interesting. My background is in solid state electronics so I am familiar with solid state atomic structures and valences etc. It struck me that this topic is what I would call liquid state life enabling structures. Solid state electronics is about electron flow in solid crystals whereas this topic is about self forming molecular structures in water where non-covalent bonding is critical to structure formation. A very good instructor.
