Distance learning: Principles of Protein Structure (PPS)

Postgraduate Certificate Syllabus

PPS Syllabus

Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4	Section 5	Section 6
Section 7	Section 8	Section 9	Section 10	Section 11	Section 12

Section 12 - Structural Molecular Immunology

This section is different from any of the previous sections in the course: it deals with the structures of proteins in a particular functional class. Through studying the proteins of the immune system you will learn in more detail how the functions, and mechanisms, of proteins can be determined by their structure.

12.1 Introduction to the Immune System
12.2 Immunoglobulins and the Immunoglobulin Fold
12.3 MHC Class I and Class II Molecules
12.4 Differences between the Class I and Class II active sites
12.5 The Adaptive Cellular Immune Response
12.6 The CD4 and CD8 Receptors
12.7 Immunoinformatics

Modelling Antibody Structures

Predicting antigenic sites

12.8 References