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In their simplest form, proteins essentially comprise unbranched polymer chains formed as a result of chemical bonding that takes place between the amino acid building blocks.
In biology, proteins are uniquely important... the most significant thing about proteins is that they can do almost anything. But their main function is to act as enzymes
—Francis Crick, Society for Experimental Biology Symposium 1957
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Lever, G. (2015). Proteins, Enzymes and Biological Catalysis. In: Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Enzymology. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19351-9_2
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