Chemistry 414
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Spring 2008

Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00 am-10:50 am
Hutchison 420

Prof. Patrick Holland
Hutchison 126
Phone 3-3092

Office hours by appointment

General Information

Literature and Library Resources for CHM 414

Required Text:
Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Bertini, Gray, Stiefel, and Valentine

CHM 414 is switching over to BlackBoard!! Please go to
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Learning Objectives:

Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14

  Assignments:

Readings and Discussion Questions
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 2 requires VMD and the following files: ah1.pdb and ah2.pdb
Proposal Presentation Assignments
Take-Home Midterm Exam
Take-Home Final Exam

  Inorganic chemistry resources:

Hard and Soft Acids and Bases
Webelements
More on Crystal Field Theory
Awesome Clickable d Orbitals
Less Awesome, but Printable d Orbitals
Kinetics Handout


Biomolecule visualization resources:

Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD): needed for Problem Set 2
Alternatives:
Protein Explorer: Site 1
  Site 2  Download
CHIME (necessary for Protein Explorer)
SwissPDB Viewer: Download
RasMol: Download
PyMol: Download

Proteomics resources:

Protein Data Bank
Genbank (sequence, sequence similarity searches)
BLAST (click Protein-protein BLAST to find proteins with sequence similarity)
BLAST tutorial
CLUSTAL (visualizing multiple alignments)

EXPASY (proteomics links and resources)
PROMISE (metalloenzyme database; out of date)
PIR Protein Sequence Database

Other links of potential interest:

Valinomycin structure (requires Chime)
Gramicidin structure (requires Chime)
Ion Channel Web Links
Potassium channel
Zinc finger-DNA complex
Biological transport agents
View of human transferrin N-terminal domain
View of bullfrog M ferritin
Oxygen binding to metalloproteins
Structure of photosynthetic reaction center
Structure of Photosystem II
Structure of particulate methane monooxygenase
Information on cellular respiration
 
Journals (available through U of R):

Chemical Reviews (February 2004 issue on biomimetic inorganic chemistry)
PNAS (April 2003 issue on bioinorganic chemistry)
Chemical Reviews (April 2002 issue on nitric oxide chemistry)
Chemical Reviews (November 1996 issue on bioinorganic enzymology)

Chemical Reviews (September 1999 issue on medicinal inorganic chemistry)
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (April 2000 issue on bioinorganic chemistry)
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (April 2004 issue on bioinorganic chemistry)

Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC)
Inorganic Chemistry
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
Current Opinion on Chemical Biology

Bioinorganic Chemistry Research at Rochester:

Bren group
Holland group
Wedekind group
Biological Chemistry Cluster