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Biochemistry 3510 I Spring 2017: Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins

Reading Assignments

Ahern and Rajagopal: Structure & Function, Amino Acids (pages 52-72)

Mills Lecture Notes

Amino Acids and the Primary Structures of Proteins

Video Lectures

Articles

The History of the Discovery of the Amino Acids

Hubert Bradford Vickery and Carl L.A. Schmidt

Large-scale synthesis of peptides*

Lars Andersson, Lennart Blomberg, Martin Flegel, Ludek Lepsa, Bo Nilsson and Michael Verlander*

Peptide Science, Volume 55, Issue 3, pages 227–250, 2000

Sanger, Frederick. "Sequences, sequences, and sequences." Annual review of biochemistry 57.1 (1988): 1-29.

The First Sequence: Fred Sanger and Insulin

Antony O. W. Stretton

Genetics October 1, 2002 vol. 162 no. 2 527-532