Structural organisation of proteins; Protein Folding - Molecular chaperones and catalysis of protein folding; Protein modification and degradation; Functional design of proteins; Membrane proteins; Purifying, detecting and characterizing proteins. Protein databases.
Basic processes in cell signalling; receptors-ligands; second messengers; Proteins kinases and signalling; G proteins; examples of hormone signalling; Ca++ signalling; signalling pathways. Role of transcription factors. Ig receptors. Cytokines and their receptors.
