BIOCHEMISTRY - Textbook - Ostapchenko L. I. - 2012

Chapter 5. STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES, AND FUNCTIONS OF PROTEINS

5.2. Protein Structure

Peptide chains contain dozens, hundreds, and thousands of amino acid residues linked by strong peptide bonds. Through intramolecular interactions, Proteins form a specific Spatial Structure known as "protein conformation." The linear sequence of Amino Acids in a protein contains the information required to build its tertiary spatial structure. There are four Levels of Protein Organization, referred to as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure (Fig. 5.3). There are general rules governing The formation of the Spatial structure of Proteins.

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