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What is Construction with Macromolecules about?
## Structures of various shapes and functions found in nature are compelling for their beauty and diversity, as well as inspiring for the design of new architectures. In proteins -the principal machinery of life -structure, and thus function, is generated using a hierarchical construction plan. At the primary structure level, different amino acid monomers are covalently connected to yield the desired peptide sequence. At the next stage, regions of this strand are folded into well-defined chain conformations, using noncovalent interactions within the strand and with the environment, giving rise to secondary structures such as helices and sheets. The tertiary structure involves the relative arrangement of secondary structure motifs within the same strand, for instance by introducing specific turns. In more complex proteins, several of these subunits assemble into a quaternary structure held together by multiple noncovalent interactions. Although scientists constantly gain more insight into these astonishingly complex processes, many mysteries, including the folding problem, remain. When comparing natural and artificial macromolecular systems, it becomes apparent that although polymer
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- Author
- Stefan Hecht
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1369-7021)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)