Proteins, Denaturing And How Essential Water Is To Basic Life
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 04:20
in Biology & Nature
Proteins are large, organic - in the science sense of organic, not the food marketing sense - molecules that help us to convert food into energy, supply oxygen to our blood and muscles and drive our immune systems. Proteins consist of one or more polypeptides, chains of amino acids held together by peptide bonds. If a protein in water is heated to temperatures approaching the boiling point of water, these chains will lose their structure and the protein will denature (unfold). read more