7.88
Protein Folding in Health and Disease
See description under subject 5.48[J] .
Spring 2015 · Protein Folding and Human Disease
Topics
- Introduction to Class
- Protein Conformation Review
- β-sheet Conformations
- Critical Features of in Vitro Refolding Reactions
- Structure and Function of Double Barrel Chaperonins
- Collagen Folding and Assembly
- Protein Deposition Diseases: Light Chain Amyloidosis, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS and Others
- Prions and Functional Amyloids
- Membrane Proteins
- Chaperones
- Student Paper Presentations
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 5.48[J] Prereq: ( 5.07[J] or 7.05 ) and permission of instructor G (Spring; first half of term) 3-0-3 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2015
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.