Lectures in Membrane Proteins

Membrane Proteins

• Membrane Proteins course web page

References

• Nicholls DJ, Ferguson, SJ. Bioenergetics3. Academic Press/Elsevier Science 2002
• Molecular Biology of the Cell. Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter. 5th edition. 2007. Garland Science. 4th Edition online at NCBI...

Specialist web sites

• Complex I Home Page
• News on the 3D structure from the Complex I Home Page
• Complex II Home Page
• Complex III Home Page
• Cytochrome oxidase home page
• ATP Synthase

Broader interest

• Introduction to Protein Structure. 2nd edition. Carl Branden, John Tooze
• Lane N. Power, Sex, Suicide. Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press. October 2005
• Nick Lane home page. Author of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (OUP 2002); Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (OUP 2005); Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Profile/Norton 2009)
• Ina Schuppe Koistinen
• Odra Noel
• Mitochondrial Proteome. Database for mitochondria-related genes, proteins and diseases
• Proteopedia. Including membrane proteins, for example, 1prc and 1jb0
• queenmaryphotosynthesis.org

Qo. The movie

• Qo.mov

Molecule of the Month

• ATP Synthase
• Bacteriorhodopsin
• Cytochrome c
• Cytochrome c Oxidase
• Hydrogenase
• Mechanosensitive Channels
• Photosystem I
• Photosystem II
• Potassium Channels
• Sodium-Potassium Pump

Relevant papers as pdf files. Please observe copyright

• Structure of the Hydrophilic Domain of Respiratory Complex I from Thermus thermophilus
• Structure of the Hydrophilic Domain of Respiratory Complex I from Thermus thermophilus pdf file
• The architecture of respiratory complex I
• An atypical haem in the cytochrome b6f complex pdf file
• Structure of the Cytochrome b6f Complex of Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Tuning the Cavity pdf file
• Protein synthesis by isolated pea mitochondria is dependent on the activity of respiratory complex II
• Structure for signalling and vectorial metabolism
• Energy transduction anchors genes in organelles
• The function of genomes in bioenergetic organelles
• Why do we still have a maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA? Insights from evolutionary medicine
• Power for life
• Chemiosmotic coupling: The Cost of Living Professor Peter Rich
• Power Games By Nick Lane
• Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes By Nick Lane
• Photosynthesis - telling it like it is Review of Blankenship's Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis

Nobel prizes

• 1978 Chemistry Nobel Prize to Peter Mitchell
• 1988 Chemistry Nobel Prize to Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel
• 1997 Chemistry Nobel Prize to Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker and Jens C. Skou

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