Re: Primary, Secondary....

Dr. Rebecca Parsons (rebecca@cs.ucf.edu)
Fri, 27 Jan 1995 10:33:41 -0500

Given Simon's encouragement, I'll step in and ask a clarifying
(quite possibly silly) question about the quaternary structure
discussion.

> > as to the quaternary structure, I would suggest:
> > the symetrical arrangement of subnits in a protein
>

What is precisely meant by a subunit of a protein? I know of
lots of different categorizations of aspects or areas of
proteins. Is subunit a generic characteristic that refers
to all?

Rebecca

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