BSC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peptide, Living Systems, Sucrase

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Concept 3. 2 proteins are polymers with important structural and metabolic roles. Oligopeptides or peptides short polymers of 20 or fewer amino acids (some hormones and signaling molecules) Polypeptides or proteins range in size from insulin, which has 51 amino acids, to huge molecules such as the muscle protein titin, with 34,350 amino acids. Amino acids are linked in condensation reactions to form peptide linkages or bonds. Polymerization takes place in the amino to carboxyl direction. There are four levels of protein structure: 1. Primary- held together by peptide bonds/ covalent bonds: 2. Secondary- held by hydrogen bonds: 3. tertiary, 4. Secondary structure: regular, repeated spatial patterns in di erent regions, resulting from hydrogen bonding. There are 2 major types of secondary structure: 1. (alpha) helix right-handed coil, 2. (beta) pleated sheet two or more polypeptide chains are extended and aligned. Tertiary structure is the nal, folded, 3-d shape of a polypeptide.

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