Proteins & enzymes answers
1. (a) where R1 = –CH2 –COOH , R2 = – CH2–CH2–COOH and R3= –CH(CH3)–OH in any order (b) Five (six in total). 2. The secondary structure describes the way in which chains of polypeptides fold themselves due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding (this can be either alpha-helix or beta-pleated). The tertiary structure describes the overall folding of the chains by interactions between distant amino acids to give the...