Paul Andersen explains the structure and importance of proteins. He describes how proteins are created from amino acids connected by dehydration synthesis. He shows the importance of chemical properties in the R-groups of individual...

Ion Channel Selectivity K+ Channel

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative prion disease in which affected individuals suffer destruction of cortical neurons due to accumulation of prions of both beta-amyloid and Tau type. In this video, I will explain the acquisition...

Prions | The General Mechanism of Prion Formation and Disease

Proteins and Enzymes for Anatomy and Physiology

We've talked a lot about DNA in this series. Building off of our understanding of nucleic acids in biochemistry, we now know that DNA wraps around histones to form nucleosomes, which then supercoil to form chromatin. But what does a...