Answer to Question #268126 in General Chemistry for Kyle

Question

Choose your one favorite lipid, and another one favorite peptide (short chain amino acids). Connect this lipid and peptide together, then draw. When this lipid + peptide is assembled into water solution, draw what is going to happen in its structure. Describe and explain your answer.

Answer 1

Polypeptide chains are formed by dehydration between the amino group of a L-amino acid4 with the carboxyl group of another. One hundred or more amino acids are linked together with covalent peptide bonds in various specific sequences in the polypeptide chain with polypeptide chains combining to form a protein.