Computer Modeling of Biomolecules
Presented by
Kam Bo Wong
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology Programme
email: kbwong@cuhk.edu.hk
http://smart.bch.cuhk.edu.hk/kbwong/index.htm
6. Amino acid
6.1 load "alanine.pdb"
Amino acid is the building block of proteins. The structure you just loaded to RasMol is Alanine, one of the 20 standard amino acids found in proteins.
· Can you identify all the functional
groups of alanine?