Practice: Non-Polar Sidechains - Fill in the missing sidechains on the following target tripeptide.
Are you ready to learn the 20 amino acids?! Let's get started.
Concept #1: Nonpolar Amino Acids
There are 6 amino acids in the polar side-chain category. Let's learn them!
Concept #2: Polar Amino Acids
5 more! In the following video we will learn the 2 acidic and 3 basic side chains for amino acids.
Concept #3: Charged Amino Acids
There are 9 essential amino acids. Let's dive deeper into their meaning.
Concept #4: Essential Amino Acids
Major props if you made it this far. Below we will use the tips and tricks learned above to fill in a blank chart and do some practice problems. Let's do this.
Example #1: Blank Amino Acid Worksheet
Practice: Non-Polar Sidechains - Fill in the missing sidechains on the following target tripeptide.
Practice: Non-Polar Sidechains - Provide the complete structure of the tripeptide P-F-W
Practice: Polar Sidechains - Provide the Fischer Projection of Glutamine (Q)
Practice: Polar Sidechains - Provide the complete structure of the dipeptide Asn-Cys
Practice: Polar Sidechains - Fill in the missing sidechains on the following target oligopeptide.
Note: While the structure of Asparagine is correctly drawn at position #5 in the above video. The abbreviation "N" actually belongs to Asparagine, not Arginine.
Practice: Acidic/Basic Sidechains - Provide the Fischer Projection of Amino Acid (H)
Practice: Acidic/Basic Sidechains - Fill in the missing sidechains on the following target oligopeptide.
Practice: Acidic/Basic Sidechains - Provide the complete structure of the oligopeptide V-I-D-Y. Based on your knowledge of hydrophobicity, which side of the peptide is more likely bury itself within the protein?
