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2007-2008 Updates

Active transport proteins
Figure U1-12.1 The structure of an ABC transporter
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Figure U1-12.2 Structures of two states of ABC transporters
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Figure U1-12.3 Proposed mechanism for import of substrate by ABC transporters
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Figure U1-13.1 Visualization of the tunnels in the three monomers in the asymmetric AcrB trimer
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Figure U1-13.2 Proposed mechanism of drug transport by the RMD transporters
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Protein interactions
Figure 3-0.1 Changes in binding can lead to relocalization of proteins
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Figure 3-0.2 Protein binding can make reactions more efficient and specific
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Figure 3-0.3 Binding can directly alter the activity of proteins
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Figure 3-1.1 The nature of protein-binding interfaces
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Figure 3-1.2 A peptide–protein interaction
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Figure 3-2.1 The quantitative definition of specificity
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Figure 3-2.2 Specificity is a relative quantity that depends on context
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Figure 3-3.1 A binding isotherm
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Figure 3-3.2 Approximate dissociation constants for typical biological interactions
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Figure 3-4.1 Interactions with the same affinity can have different rates of binding and dissociation
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Figure 3-4.2 Avidity of antibody binding
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Figure 3-4.3 Effect of surface density on binding
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Figure 3-5.1 Range of biological affinities and concentrations
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Figure 3-6.1 Increasing specificity through positive discrimination
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Figure 3-6.2 Increasing specificity through negative and positive discrimination
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Figure 3-6.3 Negative selection enables SH3 domains to specifically recognize proline
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Figure 3-7.1 Positive cooperativity leads to all-or-none assembly
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Figure 3-7.2 Diverse mechanisms for cooperative binding of two ligands to one receptor
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Figure 3-7.3 Cooperative recognition of a tandem phosphotyrosine motif by coupled SH2 domains
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Figure 3-7.4 The effect of positive cooperativity on binding curves
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Figure 3-8.1 Detecting binding partners by co-immunoprecipitation
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Figure 3-8.2 The yeast two-hybrid assay
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Figure 3-8.3 Detecting binding partners by far-Western blotting
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Figure 3-9.1 Detecting protein interactions by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
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Figure 3-9.2 Visualizing protein binding with FRET
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Figure 3-9.3 Detecting protein–protein interactions with the protein-fragment complementation (PCA) assay
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Figure 3-10.1 Scatchard analysis
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Figure 3-10.2 Determining binding parameters by surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
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Figure 3-10.3 Determining binding parameters by isothermal calorimetry (ITC)
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Protein phosphatases
Figure U3-3.1 The structure of the catalytic subunit of the human protein serine/threonine phosphatase PP1
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Figure U3-3.2 Schematic structures of representatives of the main class of protein tyrosine phosphatases in humans
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Figure U3-3.3 The catalytic domain of the cytoplasmic protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP1B
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Figure U3-3.4 The catalytic mechanism of protein tyrosine phosphatases
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Figure U3-4.1 The actions of phosphatases in signaling pathways that lead from the insulin receptor
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2006-2007 Updates

Membrane proteins
Figure U1-6.1 Schematic representation of the main structural types of membrane proteins
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Figure U1-6.2 Structure of bacteriorhodopsin from the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum
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Figure U1-6.3 Structure of the photosynthetic reaction center from the bacterium Blastochloris (Rhodopseudomonas) viridis
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Figure U1-7.1 The aromatic amino-acid residues tryptophan and tyrosine are distributed non-uniformly in most membrane proteins
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Figure U1-7.2 Alpha-helical transmembrane proteins are inserted into membranes by specialized protein-translocation machinery
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Figure U1-7.3 Membrane proteins can be inserted in the membrane in different orientations
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Figure U1-8.1 The dimeric enzyme monoamine oxidase B is attached to the membrane by helical peptides
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Figure U1-8.2 The membrane-anchoring loop of S-mandelate dehydrogenase
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Figure U1-8.3 D-Lactase dehydrogenase associates with the surface of the membrane
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Figure U1-8.4 Proposed transmembrane topology of the intramembrane gamma protease (presenilin) and its substrate
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Figure U1-9.1 Potassium channel structure
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Figure U1-9.2 A schematic of the pore and selectivity filter of the bacterial K+ channel KcsA
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Figure U1-10.1 Aquaporin forms a water-transporting pore in the membrane
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Figure U1-10.2 The mechanism of water transport through aquaporin
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Figure U1-10.3 Hemolysin is a heptamer that forms a beta-barrel structure in the membrane
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Figure U1-10.4 The peptide antibiotic gramicidin A forms a beta helix in the membrane
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Figure U1-11.1 Structure of the E. coli glycerol-3-phosphate transporter (GlpT), a typical member of the major facilitator superfamily
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Figure U1-11.2 The transport cycle for the GlpT antiporter
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Figure U1-11.3 The transport cycle for the LacY symporter
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Figure U1-14.1 The major components of the cellular machinery for clearing cytosolic calcium in a muscle cell
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Figure U1-15.1 The SERCA Ca2+-ATPase in two different states in the calcium-transport cycle
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Figure U1-15.2 The calcium-transport cycle and proposed mechanism of the SERCA Ca2+-ATPase
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2005-2006 Updates

Enzyme kinetics
Figure U2-1.1 Reaction rates measure how fast processes occur
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Figure U2-1.2 Rate constants are measured from reaction rates at different reactant concentrations
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Figure U2-2.1 The binding of substrate to an enzyme is dependent on the substrate concentration
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Figure U2-2.2 Graph of rate against total substrate concentration for a typical enzyme-catalyzed reaction
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Figure U2-2.3 Lineweaver–Burk or reciprocal kinetic plot of 1/v against 1/[S]
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Figure U2-3.1 kcat/Km gives an indication of the substrate specificity of an enzyme
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Figure U2-3.2 The rate-determining step
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Figure U2-3.3 Ping-pong or double-displacement kinetic behavior
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Figure U2-3.4 Effect of temperature on reaction rate
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Figure U2-4.1 Competitive, noncompetitive and uncompetitive inhibition
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2004-2005 Updates

Secondary structure
Figure U1-1.1 Ramachandran plot
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Figure U1-1.2 Typical beta turn
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Figure U1-2.1 Table of conformational preferences of the amino acids
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Figure U1-2.2 An example of secondary structure prediction
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Protein folding
Figure U1-3.1 Folding intermediate states
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Figure U1-3.2 Highly simplified schematic representation of the folding of a polypeptide chain in water
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Figure U1-3.3 The folding funnel is a conceptual representation of the energy landscape explored by a polypeptide chain as it folds
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Figure U1-4.1 Structures of three of the four major known chaperone classes
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Figure U1-4.2 Structure and major folding cycle of GroEL-ES
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Figure U1-5.1 Strategies for dealing with misfolded proteins
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Figure U1-5.2 Synthesis and intracellular transport pathway of normal and mutant CFTR
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Control by pH and redox
Figure U3-1.1 Cathepsin D conformational switching
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Figure U3-1.2 Schematic representation of the mechanism by which diphtheria toxin kills a cell
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Figure U3-2.1 Glutathione is oxidized at its cysteine residues
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Figure U3-2.2 Oxidized thioredoxin from E. coli
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Figure U3-2.3 Peroxiredoxin
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