Proetins are not hydrolysed just by water. Protein hydrolysis is catalysed by enzymes called proteases. They bind to the substrates and speed up the reaction of hydrolysis to form the small peptides or amino acids.
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protease (a type of enzyme) breaks the peptide bonds between the amino acids which make up the protein.
Amino Acids
The monomers of proteins are amino acids.
Proteins are made up of (long strings of) amino acids.Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are around 20 amino acids in total. By joining together they form long chain proteins.
They make polypeptides chains. A chain made of over 100 amino acids is often called a protein
Proteins are made up of smaller units called amino acids which are strung together to form proteins which can be of different sizes and shapes.
Amino Acids
Hydrolysis is a reaction by which a larger compound is broken down (lysed) into smaller constituents. Protein hydrolysis will result in monomers of amino acids.
Proteins are more resistant to acid hydrolysis than are nucleic acids. Because proteins contain long chains of the amino acids which are connected to each other. -OH and -NH2 group of amino acids are strongly stabilised by hydrogen bonding. Therefore they do not get hydrolysed as number of intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonds are formed.
No. but amino acids are the building blocks of protein
The name given to the monomers of proteins is amino acids.
The hydrolytic process breaks down inter-amino acid bonds of the protein, so that first polypeptides, then oligopeptides, and finally the constituent amino acids result. By hydrolysis a water molecule will be split into a hydrogen atom and an -OH group and these two units take the bindings that held the amino acids togeather in the first place so that the protein molecule is decomposed. Hydrolysis means "dissolving by water", but usually also some catalyst must be present for the reaction to occur, like an acid or base. A protein is a very long chains of amino acids which also is wrapped up in specific ways to produce a shape specific for the protein molecule. A polypeptide is a long chain of amino acids, but shorter than a protein. An oligopeptide is a chain of just a few amino acids.
Proteins are polymers made up of amino acids.
The monomer of proteins are called amino acids.
Proteins are made of Amino Acids
The monomers of proteins are amino acids.
Polymers of amino acids are proteins.
Proteins are polymers of amino acid molecules