Manjiri posted an Question
January 28, 2022 • 19:21 pm 30 points
  • IIT JAM
  • Biotechnology (BT)

Haemoglobin has a quaternary structure made up of 4 separate polypeptide chains :2 identical alpha -chains with 141 amino acids each and 2 identical beta-chains

Haemoglobin has a quaternary structure made up of 4 separate polypeptide chains :2 identical alpha -chains with 141 amino acids each and 2 identical beta-chains with..amino acids each?

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    A hemoglobin molecule is made up of four polypeptide chains, two alpha chains of 141 amino acid residues each and two beta chains of 146 amino acid residues each. In the complete molecule, four subunits are closely joined, as in a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, to form a tetramer.

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