Animations on subjects of Structural and Metabolic Biochemistry

Doutor Pedro Silva

Professor Auxiliar, Universidade Fernando Pessoa

Metabolic pathways:

Available animations:

  • Carbohydrates

    Secondary structure in proteins

  • α-helix
  • Parallel β-sheet
  • Anti-parallel β-sheet
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    Hemoglobin

  • Deoxyhemoglobin
  • Effects of O2 binding on heme and subunit geometries
  • Quaternary structure changes due to heme oxygenation
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    Electron transfer complexes in the respiratory chein

  • NADH dehydrogenase (complex I)
  • Succinate dehydrogenase (complex II)
  • Cytochrome bc1 (complex III)
  • Cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV)
    •  A large number of animations is available through the Molecular Visualization Resources Index.

    The HTML code used in the animations was based on the templates provided by Eric Martz, in the University of Massachussets.

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