Video 12 Notes - Kinases
โ DNA is a linear template of four bases:
[ Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine. ]
โ The speed with which we can sequence DNA is incomprehensible.
โ Information lies within the linear template of DNA.
โ RNA is also a linear template of four bases:
[ Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil. ]
โ Information lies within the linear template in RNA as well.
โ Proteins are made up of 20 different amino acids, and the chemical properties of those
amino acids are fairly different.
โ Proteins get modified when they get made.
โ With DNA and RNA, transcription transcribes the DNA into RNA.
โ A protein sequence defines the chemical composition of that structure.
โ To understand how a protein works, you need to have a structure, so you know where the
amino acids are and how they work together to create an active and functional protein.
โ Understanding proteins are much more complicated than reading DNA and RNA
templates.
โ The building blocks or the atoms that make up the protein: Carbons, Nitrogens, Oxygens,
Hydrogens, Sulphur, and Phosphates.
โ Frank Westheimer: one of the chemists that studied phosphoryl-transfer.
โ Westheimer elucidated the importance of phosphates for biology.
