Hemoglobin
- Stick Model
1.What is the primary secondary structure found
in this protein?
2. Can you identify the class to which most of
the amino acids on the interior of the Hb subunits belong? (HINT:Click
on MDL logo, click "select", "protein", "hydrophobic". Then open
the window again and click on "display", "ribbons".)
- Ribbon Model
3. How many chains comprise this protein?
4. What in the general nature of the amino acids
found on the exterior of this molecule? (Hint: open the menu as above,
click "select", "protein", "charged". Then open the menu again and click
on "display", "spacefill, "van der waals radius". Open again and "color"
by "chain".)
- Space Fill Model
- Stick Model Showing H Bonds (all 446 of them!)