What Best Describes the Main Determinant of the Secondary Structure

question 41

Multiple Choice

What best describes the main determinant of the secondary structure of a protein?

• A) the sequence of the various amino acids that make up a polypeptide chain
• B) the total number of amino acids that make up a polypeptide chain, and its overall resulting length
• C) the total number of polypeptide chains that combine to determine the overall size of the protein
• D) molecular interactions between widely separated regions of a polypeptide, such as disulfide bonds, that stabilize the folded conformation
• E) molecular interactions along a polypeptide chain that fold various regions into alpha helices or beta sheets

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