Answer to Question #292612 in General Chemistry for Lisa

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Imagine a protein molecule compose of 200 glycine molecules and 200 aspartic acid molecules describe how the protein is folded what is in this inside and what is in the outside

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chemical point of view, proteins are by far the most structurally complex and functionally sophisticated molecules known. This is perhaps not surprising, once one realizes that the structure and chemistry of each protein has been developed and fine-tuned over billions of years of evolutionary history. We start this chapter by considering how the location of each amino acid in the long string of amino acids that forms a protein determines its three-dimensional shape. We will then use this understanding of protein structure at the atomic level to describe how the precise shape of each protein molecule determines its function in a cell.

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The Shape of a Protein Is Specified by Its Amino Acid Sequence

Recall from Chapter 2 that there are 20 types of amino acids in proteins, each with different chemical properties. A protein molecule is made from a long chain of these amino acids, each linked to its neighbor through a covalent peptide bond (Figure 3-1). Proteins are therefore also known as polypeptides. Each type of protein has a unique sequence of amino acids, exactly the same from one molecule to the next. Many thousands of different proteins are known, each with its own particular amino acid sequence.