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-monomers in peptides and proteins -energy production |
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How many groups are amino acids arranged into? |
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How are amino acids classified? |
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What are the 20 amino acids coded from? |
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What is the source of Nitrogen in Amino Acids? |
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Where do the carbon backbones of amino acids come from? |
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The glycolytic pathway, the pentose phosphate pathway, and the citric acid cycle |
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What are the Non-Polar Amino Acids? |
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Glycine, Alanine, Valine, Leucine, Methionine, and Isoleucine |
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What are the Aromatic amino acids? |
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Phenylalanine, tyrosine, and Tryptophan |
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What are the Polar Amino Acids? |
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Serine, Threonine, Asparagine, Glutamine, Cystine, and Proline |
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What are the Positively charged amino acids? |
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Lysine, Arginine, and histadine |
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What are the negatively charged amino acids? |
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What is the function of carbohydrates? |
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energy production structure cellular recognition signaling |
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What is the cellular function of lipids? |
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energy production membranes signaling |
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Cellular function of nucleic acids? |
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cellular energy cellular messengers biological precursors components of DNA and RNA |
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On what does almost all drug action act? |
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What is the central carbon of an amino acid called? |
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What are the four parts of an amino acid? |
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alpha carbon, hydrogen group, carboxylic acid group and sidechain |
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an acid having both positive and negative charges, but having a total charge of zero |
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What can amino acids act as? |
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can act as an acid or a base |
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What is the structure around the alpha carbon? |
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lacking an internal plane of symmetry |
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two forms that are mirror images of each other that can not be superimposed upon one another |
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Are all amino acids chiral? |
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When the R group is below the alpha carbon and the amino group is on the left the amino acid is said to be ? |
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When the R group is below the alpha carbon and the amino group is on the right the amino acid is said to be? |
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In pharmaceutical drugs how many forms of the drug are active? |
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What what conformation are amino acids in proteins? |
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why is it important to synthesize a drug with only on chiral conformation? |
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to increase efficacy, and decrease toxicity |
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How many naturally occuring amino acids are there? |
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what does a small R group indicate? |
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more hydrophilic, and more water soluble |
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What is the most soluble amino acid? |
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What is the only cyclic amino acid? |
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Polar amino acids are more soluble because they ____? |
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can form hydrogen bonds with water |
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Which amino acid forms disulfide bonds? |
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How many polypeptide chains and disulfide bonds does insulin contain? |
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2 polypeptide chains and 3 disulfide bonds |
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why do negatively charged amino acids form salt bridges? |
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Aromatic are groups are _________ and cluster in the protein interior. |
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True or False. Proteins are functional over a large pH range. |
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Amino acids in low pH, the COO- ? |
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accepts a proton from water |
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An amino acid at high pH, the NH3+ ? |
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donates a proton to water |
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What is the isoelectric point? |
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the point when the pH of the solution is neutral |
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how do you calculate the isoelectric point? |
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take the average of the preceeding and proceeding pKa values to the neutral form. (eg -1, 0, +1) |
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What are the titratable parts of an amino acid? |
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carboxylic acid group (COO-), amino group (NH3+) and the side chain |
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What are the least frequently appearing amino acids? |
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What are the most frequently appearing amino acids? |
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What hormone is produced by the pineal gland and regulates the sleep wake cycle? |
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From what amino acid is melatonin derived? |
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Major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders are associated with? |
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What is the intermediate between tryptophan and melatonin? |
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A movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions and spasms |
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High levels of serotonin are associated with what disease states? |
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psychosis and schizophrenia |
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What is epinephrine used to treat? |
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What reaction forms a peptide bond? |
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A condensation or dehydration reaction |
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True or False. Peptides contain only one free alpha amino group and one free alpha carboxyl group. |
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phenylketonuia-inability to metabolize phenylalanine |
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What does conjugating glutathione to drugs do? |
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makes them more water soluble |
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Can a protein contain more then one polypeptide chain? |
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are prostetic groups made up of amino acids? |
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in what conformation are 99% of peptide bonds? |
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What two process drive protein folding? |
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burying the hydrophobics and satisfying polar and charged groups |
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reactions always proceed in the direction of ? |
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hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions contribute to protein structure by? |
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reducing energy cost of unpaired polar/charged groups |
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hydrophobic interactions contribute to protein structure by ? |
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increasing disorder of solvent |
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how many amino acid residues are required to make one helix turn? |
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Hydrogen bonds are ______ to the helix backbone? |
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a repeating unit contains how many residues? |
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natural proteins are what kind of amino acids? |
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What are the destabilizing interactions in an alpha helix? |
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Large R groups too close, and electrostatic repulsion |
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what are stabilizing interactions in alpha helices |
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how many residues from the end until hydrogen bonding can occur? |
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Helices prefer ____ charged amino acids on the N terminus and _____ charged amino acids on the C terminus end. |
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two processes in protein folding? |
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nucleation and propogation |
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What is the first step in protein folding? |
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Why would glycine disfavor alpha helices? |
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High conformational flexibility when free |
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Which amino acid most favors the alpha helix? |
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Which amino acid causes kinks in the helix? |
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Proline is know as a helix breaker and is one of the ______ that prevents propagation. |
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hydrogen bonds between adjacent segments of polypeptide chains |
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Describe parallel beta sheets. |
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Main chain atoms are aligned, and nonlinear N-O/O-H bonds |
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Right handed connections between beta sheets produce _________ angles. |
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Describe antiparallel beta sheets. |
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N-O/O-H bonds aligned, and main chain atoms are not aligned |
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180 degree turns involving four amino acids |
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how do beta hairpins fold? |
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by beta turn or sidechain stabilization interactions |
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Which form of proline is always found in beta turns, cis or trans? |
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What are the two main classifications of proteins? |
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what do fibrous proteins contribute to the structures they appear in? |
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Why are fibrous proteins insoluble in water? |
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They contain large amounts of hydrophobic residues |
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Hair waving and curling is the result of ? |
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What type of helix is collogen? |
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How many amino acid residues are required to make one turn in collogen? |
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The amino acid sequence of collogen is generally? |
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A repeating tripeptide unit |
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True or False. Mutating glycine in collagen can result in lethal diseases. |
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the interior of globular proteins resemble? |
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folding pattern involved in two or more secondary structural elements and the connections between them |
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What is a domain of a protein? |
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part of a polypeptide that is stable or could undergo movement as a single entity with respect to the whole protein |
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do different domains in a protein have different functions? |
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What is the quaternary structure of a protein? |
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the 3D arrangement of more then one polypeptide chain |
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What interactions stabilize protein structure? |
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disulfide bonds, hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions, electrostatics, ion pairs, and van der Waals interactions |
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What are the two steps involved in peptide synthesis? |
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transcription and translation |
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What are the three pathways of a protein? |
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folding, aggregation, and recycling by proteases |
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What contains the information for the 3D folding of a polypeptide |
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are peptide bonds hydrophillic or hydrophobic? |
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proteins that facilitate the proper folding of large polypeptides |
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How do chaperonins function? |
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by bonding to hydrophobic residues preventing inappropriate aggregation |
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Do chaperonins actively promote folding? |
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What are two enzymes that promote folding? |
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Protein disulfide isomerase, and peptide prolyl isomerase |
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What is required for proper protein function? |
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proper folding of the protein |
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What is the single largest parameter that triggers disease? |
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decrease in protein stability |
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Decreased protein stability results in? |
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excessive protein aggregation |
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True or False. Proteins are stable over very narrow experimental perameters. |
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true or false proteins can be denatured by increasing or decreasing the temperature. |
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What are the two types of protein aggregates? |
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are all types of protein aggregates toxic? |
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what is the lag phase in amyloid formation? |
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nucleation of initial amyloid structure |
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what is propagation in amyloid formation |
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docking of molecules to the preformed nuclei |
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What can speed up aggregation? |
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Agitation and agents that destabilize proteins |
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What is the life span of an RBC in a patient with sickle cell anemia? |
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how many mutations in hemaglobin cause sickle cell anemia |
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The result of a mutation on glu-6 results in a hydrophobic/hydrophillic residue? |
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true or false. sickle cell molecules aggregate forming twinned helical bundles |
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what factors can denature therapeutic proteins? |
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pH, denaturants, contaminants, pressure, and freezing/thawing |
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shaking of protein formulations can cause protein aggregation |
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silicone oil induces protein aggregation |
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protein aggregates are formed from ? |
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partially unfolded species |
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first hypothesis in inhibition of aggregates |
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increase stability of native state, while maintaining function and safety |
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Second hypothesis in inhibition of aggregates. |
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shift equilibrium toward native state |
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If a ligand binding two states is different, then equilibrium will be shifted to favor state with greater binding |
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