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A protein is a linear chain built from 20 amino acids [1]–[6]. (A few rare amino acids occur occasionally, but we will not discuss them.) The chain contains at the order of 100 to 200 amino acids. Of particular interest are the globular proteins, which act, for instance, as enzymes (catalysis). In the proper solvent, these systems fold into the native protein, as sketched in Fig. 4.1.
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Frauenfelder, H. (2010). Proteins. In: Chan, S., Chan, W. (eds) The Physics of Proteins. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1044-8_4
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