Kendra Swindler
Samantha Botelho
Thu Ha Nguyen

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The animation will begin with showing the basic amino acid structure.
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This consists of 5 parts:
Amino group, Hydrogen,
Carbon, Carboxyl group, and
R-group (variant).
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These should be highlighted in different colors. Maybe they can slowly come together one at a time as it forms the entire structure.

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We can zoom out from the amino acid structure into a group of many amino acid “circles”
We will show how they link together with peptide bonds and form a polypeptide chain.
The amino acids (red) and peptide bonds (black) will be different colors on the chain.

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As the primary structure chains are building, we will go to another animation of the chains making hydrogen bonds between chains.
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The animation should also show that this begins to make a loose alpha helix due to the bonds

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As the primary structure chains are building, we will go to another animation of the chains making hydrogen bonds between chains.

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We can transition from secondary structure by showing how the peptide chains that were previously formed start creating bonds within itself.
Tertiary structure is further folding of secondary structure due to interactions between atoms of Rgroups or R-groups and the peptide backbone.
These bonds that cause folding include hydrogen, covalent, and ionic bonds, and van der Waals interactions.
After showing the bonds the polypeptide can begin folding to show the two common formations with Ahelice and B-pleated sheets.

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We can then transition into the final structure by showing that several polypeptides can bond together to make dimers or tetramers.
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We can show examples with one trimer
(collagen) and zoom out to show big mass of tetramers (hemoglobin).

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We would like to have an interactive quiz at the end where the audience has to label the different structure level, name the types of bonds present in that level, and any special characteristics for that level.