What Best Describes the Main Determinant of the Secondary Structure of a Protein

question 42

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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