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Class Reading and Resources

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General Resources
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Foundational Concepts
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Biology
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Lecture 01, concept 12: The central dogma of molecular biology

General Chemistry
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Electron Orbitals

Organic Chemistry
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Biochemistry
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Amino Acid Chemistry
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Blog - A Brief Guide to the Twenty Common Amino Acids

Protein Structure
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LibreText - Secondary Structure of Proteins

LibreText - Backbone Dihedrals and Ramachandran Plots

Protein Dynamics
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Lecture 03, concept 01: Interactions and their role for flexibility in amino acids

ATP hydolysis
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LibreText - ATP-The Universal Energy Currency

Statistical Mechanics
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The Boltzmann Distribution
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Lecture 03, concept 04: Deriving the Boltzmann distribution (a special case)

Lecture 03, concept 05: Relative populations in states

Lecture 03, concept 06: Entropy and free energy - accounting for multiplicity/volume

Lecture 03, concept 07: Microstates vs. Macrostates (multiplicity vs. disorder)

Our Proteins
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Motor Proteins
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Review - Kinesins and Myosins: Molecular Motors that Coordinate Cellular Functions in Plants

Book Chapter - Actin, Myosin, and Cell Movement

Ion Channels
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Book Chapter - Ion Channels and the Electrical Properties of Membranes

Transporters
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GPCRs
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Kinases
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