INDEX 497
voltage-independent and, 233
voltage sensors (voltage sensor
paddles) and, 204, 215–218, 219f,
223–232
X-ray crystallography and, 200, 201,
204, 206–207t, 208–209, 208f,
212, 213f, 215–216, 217f, 219f,
223–235
Praseodymium (Pr), 104
Prokaryotic, 58–59
cytochromes and, 82, 405, 408–409,
426, 455
potassium ion channels and, 208–209,
228–231
Prosthetic group or cofactor, 24, 44
Protein Data Bank (PDB), 83, 94, 176,
179 –182
Proteins:
amino acid building blocks, 30–33
enzyme kinetics, 45– 47
enzymes, 43–47
folding, 38–39, 63, 65– 66, 149
helical structures, 34–36, 36f, 36t, 37f,
38
pleated sheets, β-pleated sheets, 34–
36, 36f, 37f, 38
profi ling, 41–42
proteomics, 30, 40 – 43, 150 –153
quaternary structure, 38
secondary structure, 34–38, 36f, 37f
sequencing, 39–43, 150–153
tertiary structure, 37–39, 37f
Proteomics, 30, 39– 43, 150 –153
Proton translocation, see cytochrome
bc 1 , cytochrome b(6)f, and
cytochrome c oxidase
P type ATPases, 327–338, see also
Ca2+-ATPase
PubMed, 184
Purines, 47, 48–49t
Pyrimidines, 47, 48–49t
Quadrupole splitting, see Mössbauer
spectroscopy
Quantitative structure activity
relationship (QSAR), 175
Quantum mechanics:
ab initio calculations, 119, 161, 170–
174, 18 0
density function theory, 83, 161,
170 –18 0
semiempirical methods, 161, 170,
173 –175, 177, 179 –18 0
Quench-fl ow, 143
Quinones, see also ubiquinone, 24Radium (Ra), 191t
Ramachandran map, 166
Raman spectroscopy, 77–78, 348, 358,
376, 379, 420, 439, 442–443, 450,
454
pulse-probe, 176
Rapid quench, 143
Recombinant DNA, 57– 61, 60f
Replication, 53–55, 54f
Research Collaboratory for Structural
Bioinformatics’ Protein Data
Bank (RCSB-PDB), see protein
data bank
Resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy,
see Raman spectroscopy
Restriction endonucleases, 58– 60,
60f
Retroviruses, genetic transmission,
54
R-factor, 93–94, 97, 345, 390
R groups:
in amino acids, 30, 31f, 32f
Ribonucleic acid (RNA): see also RNA,
ribozyme
as building blocks, 47– 48, 48t
molecular structures, 48t
synthesis, 55
Ribonucleotide reductase, 459
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 54
Ribozyme(s)
group I intron, 244–261, see also
group I intron
hammerhead. 261–301, see also
hammerhead ribozyme
Te t ra hym e n a pre-rRNA, 238–242, see
also group I intron
Rieske iron sulfur protein (ISP), 22,
167–168, 383–387, 387t, 391,
394–396
RNA, see also ribozyme
exon, 239–240, 240f, 244–248, 246f
251–260, 259t, 260f