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Explain what a macromolecular structure is, which experiment can establish which part of it, and how that structure accounts for cooperativity, catalysis, membrane permeation, nucleic-acid recognition, and the limits of a predicted model.

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Core Learning Outcomes & Competencies

Upon mastery of this comprehensive syllabus, students and researchers are expected to:

✓ Distinguish configuration from conformation, read a Ramachandran plot including glycine and proline, and describe helix, sheet, turn, domain, and quaternary symmetry.

✓ State Anfinsen's thermodynamic hypothesis, name what stabilises a fold, and separate ordinary folding from chaperone dependence, pro-region dependence, sickle-cell polymerisation, amyloid, and prion disease.

✓ For X-ray crystallography, solution NMR, and single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, state what is measured, how a model is obtained, what a stated resolution shows, and what the method misses.

✓ Choose among small-angle scattering, circular dichroism, hydrogen–deuterium exchange, cross-linking mass spectrometry, super-resolution microscopy, and atomic force microscopy for a stated question, and say what that choice cannot resolve.

✓ Explain haemoglobin cooperativity from the quaternary switch, serine-protease catalysis from the triad and the specificity pocket, and the structural conclusions of the ribosome and ATP synthase work.

✓ Compare transmembrane helical bundles with β barrels, and explain why a potassium channel conducts K+ rather than Na+.

✓ Compare A, B, and Z DNA, describe three protein strategies for reading sequence, and explain what an RNA tertiary motif and a ribozyme demonstrate.

✓ Apply a sequence-identity rule of thumb to a homology model, read a Protein Data Bank entry critically, and judge an AlphaFold or RoseTTAFold prediction by its confidence score and its failure modes.

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