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how does the primary structure of proteins differ from the secondary structure?
4 different aspects of covalent structure and folding patterns of protein structure are known as primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure.
Primary Structure of Proteins:
The sequence of amino acids that will make up a polypeptide chain
in the primary structure of a protein. There are totally 20
different amino acids that are found in proteins. The accurate
order of the amino acids in a particular protein is the primary
sequence for that protein.
Secondary Structure of Proteins :
regular, repeated patterns of folding of the protein backbone is the secondary structure. alpha-helix or beta-sheet, or any combination of the two are the most common folding patterns in proteins. i.e secondary structure is the shape the protein .
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