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Oh, wow. Hello, you're listening to The Sides of Everything podcast, episode 68, protein structure and function.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

Recommended pre-listening for this episode is episode 18, Biochemistry Basics.

Episode 10 on the cell may also be slightly useful.

So in this episode, we're going to look at proteins.

We talked about them briefly in episode 18 and maybe it touched on them otherwise episode, we're going to look at proteins. We talked about them briefly in episode 18, and maybe it touched on them otherwise, but

we're going to dive into them in a bit more depth in this episode.

First, I'm going to just talk a little bit about some of the methods that we use to study

proteins, and then I'm going to talk about protein structure and protein functions.

So that's just how proteins are structured, what they look like, and how they fit together, and protein functions. So that's just how proteins are structured, what they

look like and how they fit together. And protein function is how they behave and what they do,

with a focus on looking at proteins as enzymes and protein foley. So let's jump straight in.

First, as I said, we'll talk a bit about the methods used to study proteins, because some of them are

quite interesting. So when we want to study proteins, the I said, we'll talk a bit about the methods used to study proteins, because some of them are quite interesting.

So, when we want to study proteins, the first step that we need to do is obtain a pure sample of the protein.

So just to remind you, proteins are a type of macromolecule found in all living organisms.

They consist of a sequence of amino acids strung together,

usually hundreds or thousands of amino acids, and they fold up in a particular three-dimensional

structure, which determines their function. And proteins are responsible for a very wide variety

of functions in the cell, including acting as messengers and as transportation molecules and as signaling molecules and structural molecules, all sorts of things.

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