Proteins & enzymes

This topic requires students to understand the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures of proteins. They can easily understand how the primary structure is obtained by hydrolysing the protein and then analysing the amino acid sequence. However how can the 3-D structure of proteins be obtained unequivocally? ⦵In 1962 Max Perutz was awarded the Nobel prize for the determining the structure of haemoglobin,...

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