Questions to study.
1. Proteins: their definition, biological role and classification.
2. Amino acids as monomers of proteins, their classifications and chemical properties. Structure of standard amino acids.
3. Peptides: their structure, classification and biological significance.
4. Primary structure of protein. Structure of peptide bond. Hereditary defects of primary protein structure. Relationship between protein structure and function.
5. Secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures of protein: their definition, types of bonds stabilizing these structures. Their specific properties and significance.
6. Physical and chemical protein properties: denaturation, solubility, salting, osmotic pressure, dialysis, acidic and basic properties.
7. Simple proteins (albumins, globulins, histones): their structure, classification, representatives, biological significance.
8. Fibrous and globular proteins.
9. Collagen: its structure and specific properties.
10. Complex proteins: their definition and classification.
11. Characteristics of glycoproteins and proteoglycans: their structure, representatives and significance.
12. Characteristics of phosphoproteins: their structure, representatives and significance.
13. Characteristics of lipoproteins: their structure, representatives and significance. Blood lipoproteins.
14. Chromoproteins: their definition and representatives.
15. Hemoproteins: their definition, significance, and representatives.
16. Hemoglobin: its structure, role in oxygen transport in human body. Cooperative binding of oxygen by hemoglobin. Regulation of oxygen binding by hemoglobin. Derivatives of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin switching during ontogenesis. Hemoglobinopathy.
17. Nucleoproteins: their definition, classification and significance.