Explain the four levels of protein structure and how this in
Explain the four levels of protein structure and how this influences the 3-D shape of the molecule
Solution
The four levels of protein structure are primary, secondary tertiary and quaternery.
Primary structure is the sequence of aminoacids in a protein chain linked by peptide bonds.
Secondary structure : Alpha helices of the charged aminoacids forms helices and aromatic aminoacids forms the beta sheets, flexibility of aminoacids forms turns and rest of the protein remains unstructured.
tertiary structure : tertiary structure of protein is the orientiation of entire protein folding based on the hydrophilic or hydrophobic aminacids and depends on the patches of aminoacids behavior towards or away from water.
quaternary structure: is the domains, multidomains, oligomerization and other higher order structure.
Coming to the three dimensional protein structure is generally a secondary, tertiary, quaternary structure and the spread of aminoacids and their side chains depending on the electrostatic, vanderwaals, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobicity in a three dimensional space or XYZ axis.
