How Amino Acid Properties Affect Protein Folding (IMAGE)

_Tokyo Institute of Technology

How Amino Acid Properties Affect Protein Folding

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The coded amino acids each have unique properties that help biological proteins fold optimally. The set of amino acids biology uses appears to have been evolutionarily optimized.

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