Nick's Teaching Blog

A collection of blog posts connected to my teaching on biomedical sciences and biochemistry degrees. All views and opinions expressed are my own, and not connected to my past, present or future employers.

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS) - the phosphorylation equilibrium

This one causes students problems every year - the relationship between Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS), and th...

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Calculating Percentage Solutions

For some reason, percentage solution calculations cause students some problems. However, hopefully, once you have read this blog post, you s...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

3d Structure of the GDP G-protein alpha subunit

The movie below shows the 3d structure of a guanosine diphosphate (GDP) bound G protein alpha-subunit. The small green molecule in the m...

Bovine Rhodopsin

The structure of a G-protein coupled receptor is often shown as: However, the crystal structure of bovine rhodopsin shows that the seve...

3d Structure - β2AR-T4L

The structure of a G-protein coupled receptor is often shown as: Which shows a receptor with the N-terminal outside the cell, seven tra...

⍺Gs and Adenylyl Cyclase

The following animation shows αGs interacting with adenylyl cyclase. The animation is also available as a slightly larger video.... I...

GPCR movement of TM3 and 6

I have been asked for access to a number of the movies I used in the lectures. The following animation shows the proposed movements of tra...

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