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Page 51 The tertiary structure of a protein with hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, disulphide bonds and hydrophobic interactions formed between the R groups of the amino acids
Quaternary
Occurs in proteins that have more than one polypeptide chain working together as a
functional macromolecule, for example, haemoglobin
Each polypeptide chain in the quaternary structure is referred to as a subunit of the protein