HOMEWORK # 1
BIOL/CHEM 5312
due Friday, January 30, 2015

van Holde et al., Chapter 1, p.68-70.

Problems 1.3, 1.4, 1.5*, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8

*in Problem 1.5 use the contact plot below (Or online http://faculty.smu.edu/svik/5312/contactmap2.jpg.pdf)

a. Assign the secondary structure.  (Find 10 elements of secondary structure and assign them by residue, approximately.)

b. As much as possible, determine the tertiary structure by considering the interactions of the elements of secondary structure.

(Always write out complete solutions.)