Chemistry A-Level
tertiary folding
What tertiary folding means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of tertiary folding
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Reference: AQA
The way the whole chain, helices and sheets together, folds into one three-dimensional shape, held by interactions between R groups.
Topics that use tertiary folding
- Proteins (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- building peptides
- comparison with standards
- condensation
- hydrogen bonding
- hydrolysis of the peptide link
- hydrolysis products
- identifying protein structure
- mobile phase
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